The UK Government claims that three million square kilometres of ocean is 'protected' in Overseas Territories, while still permitting commercial fishing.
The oceans can generate more abundant fish populations, food for human consumption and profits for fisheries. But nations must act now to adopt fisheries management reforms that take a changing climate into account, argues KRISTIN KLEISNER
The Labour party’s manifesto prioritises climate change, air quality and biodiversity decline, arguing that strong environmental policy is a social justice issue. CATHERINE EARLY reports
The Environmental Justice Foundation has documented gross human rights violations and serious illegal fishing offences aboard the Taiwanese Fuh Sheng 11. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Global fish consumption has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. But the industrialisation of the fishing industry is taking a heavy toll on small-scale fishing communities. ELYSE MILLS writes about the rise of a global ‘fisheries justice’ movement
