Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of interest in all things fishy... and sustainable...
Image by Alan Parkinson
This was part of the FISH FIGHT campaign, initiated by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. It has been a great success. The website, which takes a similar format to Hugh's earlier Landshare and Chicken campaigns, has a counter recording the number of people who have pledged to join the campaign. One of the main aspects of the campaign is against something called DISCARD.
Fishing boats are given a quota for certain species as part of the Common Fisheries Policy. If a fishing boat lands any fish of a particular species which takes them over this quota they are fined. This means that once a boat has caught its quota of haddock (for example),
According to The Guardian article here, there has been a resulting surge in demand for fish from sustainable courses, or from bycatch species.
Watch Hugh's short movie on discard:
Of course, my blogs have always been well ahead of the game.
Back in July 2008, I blogged about Taras Grescoe's book BOTTOMFEEDER.
This book features many of the issues that the FISH FIGHT campaign also covered, including the Shark Fin trade investigated by Gordon Ramsay.
This was part of the FISH FIGHT campaign, initiated by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. It has been a great success. The website, which takes a similar format to Hugh's earlier Landshare and Chicken campaigns, has a counter recording the number of people who have pledged to join the campaign. One of the main aspects of the campaign is against something called DISCARD.
Fishing boats are given a quota for certain species as part of the Common Fisheries Policy. If a fishing boat lands any fish of a particular species which takes them over this quota they are fined. This means that once a boat has caught its quota of haddock (for example),
Watch Hugh's short movie on discard:
Of course, my blogs have always been well ahead of the game.
Back in July 2008, I blogged about Taras Grescoe's book BOTTOMFEEDER.
This book features many of the issues that the FISH FIGHT campaign also covered, including the Shark Fin trade investigated by Gordon Ramsay.
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