Sport Fishing is not recognised by the International Olympic Committee; is it still a Sport?

As I stayed up at night and watched the undeniable success of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; I couldn’t stop wondering why one of the supposedly most popular sports on the planet; one that counts 40 million participants in the USA alone, 25 million in Europe and so many more million in the rest of [...]

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UK Government abandons sea angling licences scheme

Press release by the NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SEA ANGLERS
Date: March 19 2008
The government today abandoned its current plans to impose fishing licences on a million sea anglers in Britain.
The move follows several years of campaigning by the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) to convince successive fisheries ministers that because fishstocks were so seriously depleted [...]

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High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi

By Marian Burros, The New York times
Published: January 23, 2008
Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sushi from 5 of the 20 places [...]

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Senegal – Cry Sea, a documentary film by Cafi Mohamud on www.journeyman.tv

Having emptied the European seas of fish, industrial fishing trawlers are now targeting Africa. But in places like Senegal, where the sea is the nation’s main resource, the EU’s fishing policies are devastating the country. Unable to compete with this ‘European Invasion’, Senegalese fishermen are being driven out of business. This expertly crafted film examines [...]

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In a blind man’s world; the one eyed man is king!

The European Commission today welcomed the report published by the Court of Auditors on data collection, control and enforcement under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The Commission had already decided that the review of the CFP control legal framework would be a strategic priority of it 2008 Work Programme, and the Court’s report strengthens the [...]

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WTO proposes the elimination of most subsidies for the fishing industry!

Friday 30th November 2007. The World Trade Organisation proposed the elimination of most subsidies for the fishing industry in a compromise package submitted to the global body’s 151 members. The text proposes the elimination of subsidies for the acquisition, construction, repair, renewal, renovation, modernization, or any other modification of fishing vessels or service vessels, including [...]

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Portuguese government releases data on sales of sea angling licenses

Following formal requests from various organizations including registered letters from EFTTA; the Portuguese Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry has at last released the official figures of the sales of sea fishing licenses in 2007.

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Jellyfish attack signals global warming

Northern Ireland’s only salmon farm was completely wiped out by a freak jellyfish attack, the owners said Wednesday.
More than 100,000 fish worth more than one million pounds were killed in the invasion at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, on the County Antrim north-east coast. “We are still assessing the full extent, but it’s a disaster,” [...]

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Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed! H. Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart.

According to a new study by the Florida Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation: “Many of Florida’s coastal bays and estuaries will be inundated by 2100 due to sea-level rise from global warming, making the “Fishing Capital of the World” uninhabitable by some of Florida’s most prized game fish”  “Fishing as we know it [...]

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Something to ponder about!

A RECORD-breaking marlin catch off Townsville, Australia has reignited bitter divisions over the killing of the highly prized game fish.  By Peter Michael, Courrier Mail
But the man who landed the 4.2m, 503kg specimen – fisherman Mark Hislop from Magnetic Island – yesterday denied claims he was a “trophy hunter”, despite plans to make a wall [...]

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Report criticises Brussels fishing policy

By Andrew Bounds in Brussels. Published: September 27 2007
Europe’s fishing policy is “poor”, with its waters among the most overfished and the industry among the least profitable in the world, according to an internal European Commission study. View the whole article published in the Financial Times..

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