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Mowi set to relocate two controversial salmon farms
Thursday, July 11th, 2019The world’s largest salmon farming company Mowi has announced two of its salmon farms on the west coast of Scotland are to cease production. The company will focus its production…
International and geopolitical fisheries disputes on the rise
Tuesday, July 9th, 2019A new report shows that there is increasing competition between countries for access to seafood, which is leading to escalating fisheries disputes. The “mackerel war”—a bitter dispute between several European…
Harbour porpoises dying in UK waters
Friday, April 26th, 2019More than 1,000 harbour porpoises are needlessly dying in UK waters each year, according to a report from a global environmental organisation. The study by the World Wide Fund for…
Climate change: Scottish shellfish threatened
Friday, April 19th, 2019Scottish shellfish are at risk from an invasion of tiny Japanese sea creatures known as schizoporella japonica. The orange-red sea creatures are thought to be spreading with the help of climate…
Giving teeth to marine protected areas
Friday, April 5th, 2019Pair trawling is when two ships travel in parallel several hundred metres apart towing a huge net which indiscriminately scoops up marine animals in its path. Our planet’s oceans are…
Hopes for Scottish herring recovery
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019For generations the annual arrival of herring off Scotland’s shores sparked a fishing frenzy that kept thousands in work. Herring was the lifeblood of coastal communities right up until the…
Fishermen’s beacons tackle ghost gear issue
Monday, February 25th, 2019They have been called the ocean’s silent killers. Fishing nets and pots lost or abandoned at sea are far more lethal to marine life than the plastic bottles, carrier bags…
Shellfish under threat from acidic oceans
Monday, February 18th, 2019For the past few million years the world’s oceans have existed in a slightly alkaline state, with an average pH of 8.2. Now, with carbon emissions escalating, there is more…
UK trawlers ignoring fish discards ban
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019Public backing for a ban on discarding edible fish at sea has been thwarted by the reluctance of the fishing industry and the government to put an end to the…
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