Marine Stewardship Council

24 October, 2016

MSC Certification hearing to decide future of deep sea orange roughy caught through damaging deep sea bottom trawling

On Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October, at the offices of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in London, the future of vulnerable corals in the South Pacific ocean and the deep dwelling, slow growing orange roughy will be decided.

Continue reading Bottom-Trawled Fish Could Be Labelled For ‘Sustainable’ Consumption

17 June, 2015

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published the first comprehensive assessment of the state of health of fish in European Seas and concluded that two of the three deepwater fish species mainly targeted by French industrial bottom trawlers in UK waters, off Scotland, are threatened with extinction.

Continue reading Deep-sea fish caught by French trawlers off Scotland listed as ‘endangered’ by the IUCN

7 June, 2012

Source: Mother Jones

Author: Tim Philpott

Back in 2006, a team of scientists from Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Panama published a landmark reportin the prestigious journal Science on the state of the oceans. The researchers highlighted what they called an “ongoing erosion of diversity” in sea life that, if left unchecked, would lead to the “collapse of all taxa currently being fished by the mid-21st century.”

Continue reading Are the oceans on a collision course?