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It's official: EU fishing policy is crazy

Posted by jossc — 14 August 2008 at 3:01pm - Comments

Norwegian coastguard video of the Shetland trawler Prolific dumping its catch in the North Sea

The crew of the Prolific discarding their catch

So at last the sheer waste involved in modern trawling has been captured on camera. Last week a Norwegian coastguard cutter filmed the crew of a Shetland trawler, the Prolific, openly dumping over 5,000 kg of cod and other dead white fish in UK waters. Now this footage is rightly causing a wave of revulsion in the media at the scale of unnecessary waste at a time of rapidly rising food prices and, ironically, when our own Prime Minister is telling us not to waste food.

Article tagged as: common fisheries policy, EU, ICES, marine reserves, prolific, trawling

Greenpeace swimmers attempt to stop dolphin-killing fishing in Channel

Last edited 26 February 2005 at 9:00am
26 February, 2005

Greenpeace swimmers in the Channel today attempted to prevent dolphins being caught and drowned in fishing nets by placing themselves in the path of two boats dragging a huge net between them.

The UK boats Ocean Star and Ocean Crest are part of the sea bass pair trawling fleet which is estimated to kill thousands of dolphins in the Channel every year.

Article tagged as: esperanza, overfishing, press releases, trawling, whaling

Dead dolphins in the English Channel

Last edited 7 June 2004 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
7 June, 2004

A report by WDCS for Greenpeace

Summary

A joint cetacean survey by Greenpeace and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) took place aboard the MV Esperanza during January-March 2004. During this expedition, which mainly surveyed the Western Approaches of the English Channel, a total of 12 dead dolphins of which 10 were identified as common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were found floating in the water. These dolphins were likely to be the victims of by-catch in pelagic trawl fisheries.

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Article tagged as: bycatch, cetaceans, reports, trawling, WDCS, whaling

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