Cod stock fears as North Sea fishing ban dropped
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The European Commission today abandoned demands for the closure of key British cod fisheries in a compromise deal designed to preserve both dwindling cod stocks and the UK&#39;s struggling fishing industry.
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EU ministers allow fishermen to catch more cod in the North Sea, against environmentalists' recommendations.
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The European Commission calls for cuts in quotas of cod, herring and anchovy to conserve stocks.
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Science & environment: Conservationists attack EU fishing quota deal that will allow fishing fleets to land an extra 11% of cod in North Sea.
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This week's rundown of fishing reports from around the region: Area A : Drifting and jigging seems to be the way to go for cod out of Newburyport. It has been hit or miss, but the cod schools are small, so with luck you can catch several at a time. Mackerel and stripers have also been around; keeping a few ...
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By MIKE SWAIN  CELEBRITY chefs yesterday hit out at destructive fishing policies which threaten to take seafood off the menu.   Chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall slammed fisheries chiefs who are set to ignore calls for a ban on some stocks.
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European Union ministers have decided to disregard proposals to declare huge swathes of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives could be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been dropped, a top Japan official says.
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Fishermen closed off two French ports and environmentalists dumped dead fish in front of the European Union headquarters Monday on the eve of crucial talks on catch limits for threatened species in EU waters.
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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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A model of the North Sea's ecosystem suggests the total fish stock has dropped from 26 million tonnes to 10 million tonnes in just over a century.
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Environmentalists yesterday said they were extremely disappointed by a deal struck in Brussels on fish catches in the North Sea, which they claimed would do nothing to help stock recover.
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SHARES in Sportingbet plunged today as City traders had their first chance to express their alarm at the state of the international online gambling market.   The shares returned to trading after last Thursday's suspension following the arrest in New York of chairman Peter Dicks.
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The European Commission proposes closure of dangerously depleted cod grounds in the North Sea, Irish Sea and off the west of Scotland.
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Tuna fish stocks in the Mediterranean are in danger of being wiped out due to overfishing, a green group said on Tuesday, calling for a halt in EU subsidies and tougher rules to halt illegal fishing.
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Fishing leaders welcome new figures which suggest fragile North Sea cod stocks are beginning to recover.
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Fisheries closed on Bohai, Yellow seas during spawning season    JINAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The fishing season ended in the Bohai Sea and part of the Yellow Sea at midday on Saturday, affecting thousands of fishers in Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning provinces and Tianjin Municipality.