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A repeat of the same old EU/UK overfishing mistakes
In a time of pollution, plastics and climate change, overfishing remains the single biggest threat to marine life and ocean…
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Brussels to demand UK surrenders fishing rights and follows EU laws
Brussels is to demand that Britain surrenders fishing rights and follows European Union laws for the first time since Brexit,…
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Science Icebergs serve as scooters for seals! Would you eat parasites to protect your offspring? Damselfish would—and they do! In a fascinating discovery,…
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Science Stay hopeful: coral continues to exceed expectations and withstand the impacts of climate change, despite being in an altered state. Scientists are…
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Science Shore crabs can process pain. Further discoveries have been made about the lives of corals that live in deep, dark environments. A…
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Science Minke whales have ultrasonic hearing. Amazonian manatees have been discovered to have a new role: seed dispersers! A solo dolphin has been found to…
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DEFRA gets in hot water over bottom trawling – as 200,000 people step in
On World Fisheries Day, Thursday 21 November, a coalition of ocean advocacy NGOs gathered outside the Department for Environment, Food…
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British tourists flock to see Cape Town’s endangered penguins… but they had better get there soon
Numbers of African penguins are collapsing as fishing fleets compete for their sardine and anchovy diet and fish stocks move…
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Science New species alert: Bathydevius caudactylus, a bioluminescent deep-sea sea slug! The world’s largest coral is visible from space but how has it been impacted…
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Rise of the tuna: BBC Rare Earth
Jess Rattle, our head of investigations speaking about the overfishing of Indian Ocean tuna on the BBC Radio 4 Rare…