Promoting sustainable seafood from Scotland's Seas
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Scotland’s seabed is important. It might not sound like it. Most of us will never see it in real life – in places it is deep, dark and very muddy. However, it is a natural environment as important as the soils, forests, peat bogs and marshes on land. As the land slips into the sea, … [Read more]
For more than two decades, seafood certification has played an important role in helping consumers and retailers identify responsibly sourced seafood, reflecting growing public interest in the environmental and social impacts of food production. Schemes such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) blue tick have undoubtedly helped put sustainability on the agenda and encouraged improvements ……
The gastronomy world was caught off guard when the Michelin Guide recently announced it would retire its Green Star award entirely. Introduced in 2020, the green four-leaf clover was designed to recognise restaurants leading the way in responsible practice within the hospitality sector. The decision came just months after Michelin celebrated a new wave of … [Read more]
Stakes have never felt so high during a Scottish election. Poll after poll predicts different outcomes, and a growing list of marginal constituency seats to watch out for which are likely to flip. Yet the reality is that when it comes to decisions over our marine environment, little has changed since the last election. Taking … [Read more]
Hand-dived scallops generate four times the value of those dredged from the sea-floor. That’s one of the headline findings of new research, released today, examining the impact of different fishing methods, with the report finding that, as well as doing far less damage to marine ecosystems, low-impact fishing methods also generate far more value to … [Read more]
Our seas are an incredibly diverse environment, from shallow rocky shores covered in kelp, to the perpetual night of the Faroe-Shetland channel, a kilometre down, home to species as mysterious as the “sofa shark”. The marine environment, in all its diversity, is used by a large number of sectors, from fishing to energy to recreation. … [Read more]
In 2017, UK supermarkets launched a Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP) to address sustainability issues in their scampi supply chain. The initiative was chaired by Whitby Seafoods, convened by staff from the Marine Stewardship Council, and facilitated by Seafish. After seven years, however, it failed, having achieved only 9% of its targets (and even that figure … [Read more]
The UK’s environmental watchdog – the Office for Environmental Protection – has raised the alarm over Defra’s failure to take adequate steps to protect the UK marine environment, and not a minute too soon. On 19 September, the UK’s environmental watchdog, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) publicly identified “possible serious failures to comply with … [Read more]
You know something’s wrong when an organisation goes for a national treasure like David Attenborough. The veteran biologist and broadcaster’s new film ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’, has clearly struck a powerful nerve. By revealing the environmental impacts of bottom-trawling, the film makes an eloquent case for protecting more of the world’s under-threat ocean to help … [Read more]
The ocean has taken centre stage over the past fortnight, with a flurry of announcements tied to the UN Ocean Conference in Nice. This high profile event saw states vying to show leadership in conserving our seas – but what has it all amounted to? We dive behind the headlines to explore what it all … [Read more]
