When Dave Stinson began clam diving off the coast of Norway in 2002 he was struck by the quantity of life he was seeing. Sea cucumbers, flatfish, corals, sea urchins….
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North Sea cod at critically low levels, Ices report warns
Monday, July 29th, 2019North Sea cod could soon be coming off the menu for environmentally conscious diners as a decision is expected by the end of this month on whether fish populations are…
Ban on illegal discard of fish at sea is not being enforced
Friday, July 19th, 2019Rules designed to protect fish stocks are failing to have an impact, leaving vessels free to discard unwanted catch, according to a report. Six months after the EU fish discards…
MPA benefits spill into neighbouring waters, study finds
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019A new genetic analysis demonstrates MPA benefits and their spill-over effect, showing that fish leave marine protected areas for fishable waters. When California implemented a string of marine protected areas…
West Shetland Shelf MPA to open up to trawling
Monday, July 15th, 2019Over 4,000 square kilometres of seabed on the West Shetland Shelf – where endangered cod, starfish and anemones are meant to be protected – are due to open up to…
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…
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