Actualidad

21/05/12

Directrices para la pesca artesanal

Organizaciones de Terra Madre y pescadores de Slow Fish participaron a fines de marzo a un taller sobre las Directrices Volontarias para la Pesca Artesanal de la FAO. Brian O'Riordan, de la organización ICSF, nos explica porqué esta directrices deberían aplicarse a la pesca artesanal en la Unión Europea.

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.

21/02/12

Maine Voices

Ed Snell, a fishing boat captain, tells us how the quota system favors bigger, less sustainable operations and fails to address dogfish predation

04/02/12

Sin control, gigantes pesqueros diezman el Pacífico Sur

El stock de jurel ha disminuido un 90% en sólo 20 años, de unas 30 millones de toneladas a menos de 3 millones. Los barcos más potentes del mundo compiten por capturar lo poco que aún queda en esos mares.

03/02/12

Fishing Activist Shot

Ahmet Aslan, a Turkish fisherman and vocal opponent of illegal fishing in the Bosporus straight, was shot in front of a coffeehouse on Saturday

02/11/11

Llamado para una ley que proteja los ecosistemas marinos Chilenos

Amaro Gómez-Pablos llama a proteger los Ecosistemas Marinos Vulnerables de los métodos de pesca que los destruyen

02/11/11

Slow Fisch: The Northern Seas Fishing Event

Thinking outside of the box (or outside the fish net) is again one of the major themes of SlowFisch from November 4-6, 2011, in Bremen, Germany.