18 Feb 2025
Waitrose has promised to give its king prawns a humane death, after campaigners said the crustaceans feel pain. The “upmarket” supermarket said it will stop selling suffocated farmed prawns. When slaughtered, prawns are supposed to die from thermal shock in a mixture of ice and water, but campaigners say prawns can have a prolonged death […]
09 Aug 2016
COAST: Clyde Regulating Order – rejected – SIFT response The majority of Clyde marine stakeholders including creelers, sea anglers, commercial and recreational divers, boat trip and accommodation providers, not to mention wildlife operators and eNGOs are dismayed that the Scottish Government has rejected SIFT’s proposed Regulating Order (RO) for Clyde shell fisheries. This would have […]
01 Sep 2015
These two articles were flagged to me by the excellent COAST Newsletter – you can sign up here http://www.arrancoast.com/marine-news Both papers reveal the role of continued Nephrops – prawn fisheries on white fish stocks Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Clyde The paper published in Fisheries […]