25 Mar 2025
Image description: The torso of a person on the beach holding a plastic bag with litter in it. The person is wearing a grey tshirt, white shorts and plastic gloves. Image by Chaiyan Anuwatmongkolchai from Pixabay New evidence from the State of our Beaches report by the Marine Conservation Society revealed the amount of […]
25 Mar 2025
Image Description: Bluefin tuna on a black stone floor. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Starting in 2024, an English Catch and Release Recreational Fishery (CRRF) for Blue Fin Tuna (BFT) was opened. Now, fishers with commercial licences who want to apply for an authorisation to fish commercially for bluefin tuna in English waters in 2025 can start […]
25 Mar 2025
Today (March 25) the Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis, is hosting an event to launch an EU-wide campaign about aquaculture in the EU. Image description: A row of seven fish farming nets in the sea. Image by Tapani Hellman from Pixabay The campaign is running under the title “EU aquaculture. We […]
25 Mar 2025
Image description: Bleaching at Lakeside Reef Front, Ningaloo. Photograph: Zoe Richards/Curtin University / The Guardian. Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs, Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east, are experiencing mass coral bleaching events simultaneously. Reef experts are reporting the events as “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”, in […]
25 Mar 2025
Two major new studies, both released today, have together demonstrated significant impacts of bottom trawling and demonstrate the feasibility of a transition away from trawling. Image description: Two trawling boats side by side at sea. Image by günter from Pixabay Trawling costs up to €11bn a year: Firstly, the study by National Geographic […]
25 Mar 2025
The UK government has launched a major new strategy to make Britain’s shipping fleet net zero by 2050 and drive growth in coastal communities. The Maritime Minister revealed the government’s new goals for all vessels that operate in UK waters and dock at UK ports to be carbon free and help vessel owners, operators and […]
24 Mar 2025
An independent commission set up to assess the potential for tidal range renewable projects in the Severn Estuary has reported its findings. The Severn Estuary Commission, funded by various organisations including The Crown Estate, rejected proposals for a large barrage across the estuary and said that governments should focus on supporting smaller projects to capture the […]
20 Mar 2025
A new report commissioned by RSA Insurance, an Intact company, and The Wildlife Trusts shows that every £1 invested in natural flood management (NFM) is expected to deliver £10 of benefits over 30 years. The report, Assessing the multiple benefits of Natural Flood Management, was released after it transpired that insurers paid out £585M in […]
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