Seaspiracy – how can you help save the ocean?
Seaspiracy, Netflix’s hugely popular documentary, has done wonders to shine the light on the destruction of our ocean, especially from overfishing. The problems facing our ocean are clearly covered in...
In the Face of Climate Change, End Overfishing to Ensure Ocean Health
Healthy fish are like a healthy person; a healthy person is more likely to survive an epidemic than a person who is unwell. Overfishing has severely weakened the ocean’s immune...
Statement: Our Fish Response to EU Council Endorsement of EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
Today’s EU Environment Council conclusions represent Member States’ support for the European Commission’s EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The Strategy outlines pathways for alleviating the biodiversity crisis by 2030, and...
Why Europe Needs a True Blue Green Deal
Rebecca Hubbard: For all the political promises being made on countering the climate and nature emergency, we have yet to realise meaningful, large-scale political action. Virginijus Sinkevičius and EU leaders...
Restore Ocean Life – blog by Rebecca Hubbard
As programme director of the Our Fish campaign, people sometimes think I’m only a fish geek, but this story is about more than fish, or eating fish – it’s about...
EU Climate Target Plan Overlooks Ocean of Opportunity
Everybody in the EU, and all around the globe, depends on the ocean: it generates every second breath we take; has absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat generated in...
Scientist Statement of Support: Ending Overfishing Is Climate Action
More than 300 scientists call on EU Commission, Parliament & governments to recognise ecosystem-based fisheries management as critical to ocean health & climate change resilience & that fishing limits must...