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22/06/12

Small is Beautiful, but fluffy round the edges

An interesting analysis, by Brian O'Riordan, Secretary, ICSF Belgium Office, on the challenges of defining small-scale fisheries

14/06/12

Bringing an Ecological Conscience to Senegals Government

Haïdar El Ali, a member of the Slow Fish and Terra Madre network, has been appointed as the new Minister of Ecology in Senegal

13/06/12

Unity in Diversity

FAO Voluntary Guidelines to Secure Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (VG-SSF) promise an overarching framework that recognizes the rights of fishing communities to life and livelihood

12/06/12

Slow Sea Land

This weekend the historic fishing and agricultural town of Mazara del Vallo in southwestern Sicily hosted the first edition of Slow Sea Land, an event dedicated to celebrating quality food production across Sicily and the Mediterranean...

04/06/12

Fishing season in Istanbul

For the last two years, Fikir Sahibi Damaklar, one of Istanbul's convivia, has been raising awareness about the problems facing the resources of the Bosphorus, the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

21/05/12

Guidelines for small-scale fisheries

Organizations in the Terra Madre network and fishers involved in the Slow Fish campaign participated in a workshop on the FAO's voluntary guidelines for small-scale fisheries, in Copenhagen in March. Brian O'Riordan from the ICSF explains why these guidelines should be applied to small-scale fisheries in the EU.

25/04/12

A Half Attempt

Niaz Dory, director of the North Altlantic Marine Alliance, reacts to what she calls Whole Food's half attempt, following the distributor's declaration that it would stop selling red-listed fish.

16/04/12

Sustainable prawns, at a price

Australian food writer Rachel Lebihan draws our attention on how interesting, and challenging, it is to source sustainable shrimps in Sydney, Australia.

20/03/12

CPF: Tackling Discards On Fishery Basis

The expected attempt to block the discard ban through a declaration in Council never happened. Instead, ministers today held a long discussion on different approaches on how to reduce discards. See the Videos from the meeting.

19/03/12

EU Ministers Meet over Fish Discards

EU fisheries ministers in Brussels to discuss a proposed ban on discards, the controversial practice in which fish of lesser-market value or that aren't part of licensed quotas are thrown back to sea dead

15/03/12

Fishers on Screen

"Pêcheurs du monde" is an international film festival dedicated to small-scale fishers around the world

08/03/12

Ghosts in the Baltic sea

This documentary give a good view of what is happening under the surface, when nets are lost or thrown away and become ghost nets, that carry on fishing

07/03/12

Damanaki Stresses Environmental Challenges

Preparing for Rio +20, the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries adressed the European Parliament on key targets for Oceans and Coasts Symposium

06/03/12

Simplistic, naive and unhelpful

A passionate reaction to a recent editorial in The Economist laying the blame of ocean problems a bit too easily on fishers.

28/02/12

Fishing at risk of sinking

Empty nets and a new European law that risks sinking fishing. To reverse the severe decline of fish stocks, Brussels is proposing a way to regulate the catch that has already been introduced in Denmark. Donatella Bogo from the Italian paper 'Corriere della Sera' went to investigate.