All posts tagged overfishing

The Republic of Korea (or South Korea) has not done itself any favours this week, announcing that it wants to begin hunting whales (or as it and Japan

I have a particular dislike for the way the fishing industry attempts to sell itself with its hoary images of 'good old sea-salties' with beards, twinkling blue eyes,

Worrying post on BirdLife's website today. How many of us will be prepared to give up fish having heard this (the human consumption and use of fish and

New Zealand environmental group Forest and Bird has unveiled the results of its latest best fish consumer guide based on a thorough ecological assessment as opposed to fish

I'm talking about fish. Does that make the above a misleading headline? Personally I don't think so. You're free to disagree but we treat fish in monstrous ways

I've had a bee in my bonnet for a while now about 'sustainable fishing'. As a vegetarian (who only turned veggie after years of ignoring the evidence and

Press-release from RSPB, 12 Dec 11:

Help stamp out threats to albatrosses during the season of goodwill, that’s the festive plea from the RSPB.

The charity is asking people to

ICCAT, the International Commission for the Conservation [sic] of Atlantic Tunas, is in the news for having swordfish as well a tuna on the agenda for its next

Seventeen out of twenty-two albatross species are threatened with extinction with the main threat coming from mortality in fisheries...[ie drowning on hooks on 'longlines' that can stretch for