Attualità

21/05/12

Guidelines for small-scale fisheries

Terra Madre organisations and Slow Fish fishers participated at the end of march in a workshop in Copenhagen on FAO's voluntary guidelines for small-scale fisheries. 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

16/03/12

30 balenottere avvistate a Lampedusa tra ieri notte e stamattina

Slow Food: fondamentale creare un santuario della biodiversità nel Canale di Sicilia

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

La pesca rischia di affondare

Reti vuote e una nuova legge europea. Così la Pesca rischia di affondare per rimediare al grave calo delle riserve ittiche, bruxelles propone Un modo per regolamentare le catture. L’hanno già applicato in danimarca. Donatella Bogo, di Corriere della sera, è andato a vedere come funziona.

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

Fish stocks in South Pacific

Jack mackerel, down 90 percent in 20 years in once-rich southern seas, foretells wider global calamity; world’s largest trawlers compete for what is left

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

15/11/11

Liguria ferita, la solidarietà ai pescatori

Oggi i piccoli pescatori sono poche centinaia e molti sono anziani. Questa botta ulteriore rischia di cancellarli