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Tag Archives: fishing
Proud of the Fish Fight
The European Union changed its policy last year, to stop good fish being discarded dead from boats. Here’s celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall crowing about the Fish Fight. No more discards in European seas! I’m proud of the Fish Fight too. … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Europe, finfish, fish discards, fisher, fishery, fishing, hunting, law, politics, sea, vertebrate, wild food
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GM oilseeds for Britain?
This year in Britain, we heard there’d be no GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, biotech) crops. It didn’t last. A new GM crop might soon be field-tested here. Eventually this crop might reduce pressure on overfished seas. A land plant … Continue reading
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Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, algaculture, algae, aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, bioaccumulation, biotechnology, blue mussel, brassica, brown crab, brown trout, butternut squash, conservation, crop, false flax, fat, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fishery, fishing, flax, genetic modification, grocery, hemp, hunting, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, linseed, nut, nutrition, oilseed, oilseed Omega Camelina, oyster, pecan, plant_dicot, rainbow trout, research, sea, seed, skipjack tuna, sustainable, trade, value-added, vertebrate, wild food
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Chinese shark fin soup ban
Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video says about itself: 3 July 2012 China announces plans to ban shark fin soup at official functions, delighting environmentalists. Ramy Inocencio reports. From AFP news agency: China bans shark fin soup…
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Tagged conservation, finfish, fishing, grocery, hunting, law, politics, seafood, shark, vertebrate, welfare, wild food
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Bycatch: 1 for the price of 10
Originally posted on A Perspective Study:
Bycatch is a real and growing problem. We are catching more fish unintentionally than ever before thanks the to large-scale implementation of bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which ships as big as supertankers…
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Tagged bycatch, conservation, finfish, fishing, hunting, invertebrate, marine conservation zone, politics, sea, seabed, seafood, shellfish, trawling, vertebrate, wild food
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Lords committee warns of discard ban at sea leading to discards on land
Originally posted on The Coastal House:
fishupdate.com reports: The House of Lords EU Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energyhas written to Environment Minister Richard Benyon and the European Commission to warn that unless the EU fish discard ban is…
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Tagged conservation, finfish, fish discards, fishery, fishing, grocery, hunting, law, politics, sea, vertebrate, wild food
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EU shark finning ban comes into effect
Originally posted on The Coastal House:
News article from fishupdate.com: All sharks caught in European waters or by European vessels will have to be landed with their fins still naturally attached. Celebrating the arrival of the long-awaited, strict EU ban…
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Tagged conservation, finfish, fishery, fishing, hunting, law, ray, sea, seafood, shark, vertebrate, welfare, wild food
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EU Agrees To Tighten Its Ban On Shark Finning
Originally posted on Ann Novek( Luure)–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union agreed on Thursday to tighten an existing ban on “shark finning”, or slicing fins off sharks often while…
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Tagged conservation, endangered species, finfish, fishing, hunting, law, rare species, sea, seafood, shark, trade, vertebrate, welfare, wild food
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Historic fisheries deal secured by UK government
We’ve waited years for Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy to get its much-needed makeover. Yesterday, the reform was approved. You can read more under my ‘fishery’ tag and you can hear the Fat Lady singing.
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Tagged finfish, fishery, fishing, hunting, invertebrate, law, politics, seafood, shellfish, vertebrate, wild food
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Japanese Company To Stop Selling Pet Food Made From Fin Whales
Originally posted on Ann Novek( Luure)–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors:
The Guardian 2013-05-30: Michinoku Farm had been advertising jerky-like snacks for dogs made from North Atlantic fin whales at risk of extinction Icelandic whalers…
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Tagged conservation, dog, feed, fin whale, fishing, law, mammal, marine mammal, meat, pet, sea, seafood, vertebrate, whale, wildlife
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