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Fishing

April 2024

  • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

  • Two fishermen onboard a trawler with nets full of shellfish

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban

  • A man in a yellow oilskin jacket on a beach carrying two very huge crabs, while small fishing boats are anchored in an inlet. In the background are snow-topped mountains

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?

  • two men standing outside

    Canada: Indigenous fishermen left to walk shoeless after officers seized boots

March 2024

  • A trawler lowers its nets to catch demersal fish

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters

    Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’
  • Fishers line the banks of the Narrabri Creek

    The rural network
    Carp Diem: targeting the ‘perfect invasive species’ one fishing competition at a time

    2.3 tonnes of carp were removed from the Narrabri creek in north-west NSW at the annual carp muster – but experts say it won’t make a dent
  • A small fishing community in Negros Oriental from the air.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘If we can’t fish any more, we’re going to die’: the volunteer sea patrols protecting precious Philippine waters

    Dedicated groups called Bantay Dagat aim to conserve the abundant marine life surrounding their thousands of islands, which has been under pressure for years from intensive overfishing

February 2024

  • Chinese squid trawler in Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, South America.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Falkland Islands dispute is causing fishing ‘free-for-all’ in nearby Blue Hole

    Warning that soaring number of vessels threaten fish stocks and environment as geopolitics prevents agreement to regulate area
  • Generic photo of a fishing boat

    Deckhands allegedly dived into shark-infested waters off Queensland to avoid boss accused of slavery

    Fisherman, 47, facing dozens of charges including assault and torture of young male and female deckhands offshore

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘A frenzy of bodies in the chamber of death’: Italian fishers fight to preserve an ancient tradition

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘It’s going to finish the village’: how Morecambe Bay’s tragedy changed cocklepickers’ lives for ever

    • Country diary
      Country diary: Out with the salmon, in with the bullheads

January 2024

  • Fishers push a boat on the beach at San Juanico on the coast of north-west Mexico

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed

  • When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of accident-prone woolly animals, but also a way of life at a crossroads

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    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • Rakel Nystabakk in the Norwegian documentary, Rowdy Flock made by filmmaker Rebekka Nystabakk

    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • A puffin sits on a rock with a bill full of sandeels.

    Ministers’ nature policies ‘cover up’ environmental failings, wildlife groups say

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Unacceptable greenwashing’: Scottish farmed salmon should not be labelled organic, say charities

  • 83% of English rivers have evidence of high pollution from sewage and agriculture

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet

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