On 21 January 2015, MPs from across party divides joined with leading UK marine scientists and NGOs to call on the government to take a leading role in EU negotiations to ensure sustainable deep-sea fisheries, the phasing out of the most destructive methods, bottom trawling and gillnetting, and minimise harm to vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems in UK waters.
Continue reading Dr David Bailey speaks at Houses of Parliament deep-sea event
Source: High Seas Alliance
States took a major step toward urgently needed ocean protection at the UN today agreeing to develop a legally binding agreement to conserve marine life in the high seas.
Continue reading Meeting Closes With A Major Step For The Ocean
As the UK, with other EU member states, seeks to agree to a new regulation on deep-sea fishing in the northeast Atlantic, Richard Benyon MP and Ben Bradshaw MP met with fellow UK MPs, scientists and conservationists to learn more about our underwater heritage and discuss what should be done to protect it.
Continue reading Deep Sea Conservation House of Parliament Event
Source: The Guardian
Author: Alex Rogers
There is a tendency to think of the deep waters around the British Isles as cold, dark, desolate places that cannot be compared to their vibrant tropical counterparts. Cold and dark, yes, but those of us who have had the privilege to visit and study these areas know that they are anything but desolate. The UK’s deep-sea ecosystems comprise a fantastic variety of life, including cold-water corals, sponge fields, and unique underwater habitats and species.
Continue reading UK should take a lead role in the EU drive to overhaul deep-sea trawling
Today MPs from across party divides have joined with leading UK marine scientists and NGOs to call on the government to take a leading role in EU negotiations to ensure sustainable deep-sea fisheries, the phasing out of the most destructive methods, bottom trawling and gillnetting, and minimise harm to vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems in UK waters.
Continue reading Reforming EU deep-sea fishing regulation: A Net Win for the UK
Re “Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says” (front page, Jan. 16), about new, groundbreaking research published on Thursday in the journal Science:
Continue reading World leaders hold the future of the oceans in their hands this week
We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.
Continue reading Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Source: Voxy.co.nz
A “victory for common sense” was Kiwis Against Seabed Mining’s reaction today to Trans Tasman Resources’ news that it will drop its attempt to reverse the EPA’s rejection of its seabed mining application.
Source: Phys Org
Author: Tom Marshall
Trawling the seabed doesn’t just remove some of the fishes living there; it also makes some of the survivors thinner and less healthy by forcing them to use more energy finding less nutritious food
