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Fish friers fight unite
Posted by Calum Richardson of The Bay, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire on 15 March 2013
Tags: | MSC | discards | Responsible Fishing Scheme | Hugh's Fish Fight
Guest blog by Calum Richardson of The Bay, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire (www.thebayfishandchips.co.uk) - winner of the Independent Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year Award and the Good Catch Award as part of the 2013 National Fish & Chip Awards.more
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Fish Fight
Posted by Paul Williams, Chief Executive on 18 February 2013
Tags: | discards | MPAs | Hugh's Fish Fight | Marine Reserves
Was it just me or was the first edition of Hugh's new Fish Fight series slightly … weird? A demonstration that we need more marine reserves by using a tractor to knock over some sand castles? Sand castles which had been spiked with ice cream cones and draped in bunches of grapes? A detailed demonstration of how ...more
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Seafood industry champions joined-up approach to tackling discards
Posted on 10 October 2011
Tags: | discards | Fish Fight | ICES
Whilst
general awareness of the issue of fishery discards has really
gained momentum this year (accelerated in no small part by Channel
4 and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight campaign) the
seafood industry has continued its long term work to solve the
problem. Earlier this month this process continued as the Seafish
Discard Action Group (DAG) met in Grimsby.
DAG is not a new initiative. The group meets three to four t...more
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Fishing: Fighting for the Answers
Posted by Phil MacMullen on 09 August 2011
Tags: | discards | Common Fisheries Policy | Fish Fight | Hugh | Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall
Many people may have missed it, but there was a second piece about fishing broadcast yesterday. Preceding Hugh's FishFight was a piece on BBC Radio 4. It was all about gear trials to re...more
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Hugh’s ‘Fish Fight’ – the round up show by Phil MacMullen
Posted by Phil MacMullen on 05 August 2011
Tags: | discards | Fish Fight | Hugh Fearley-Whittingstall
Seafish is keen to see how the next installment of Channel 4's 'Fish Fight' shapes up when it airs on Monday 8 August at 9pm. It's certainly true that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has managed to build quite a head of steam for his campaign and this momentum for change is very welcome.
Hugh and Keo Films have managed something that is very difficult for an industry to achieve alone: making solutions sexy. His campaign differs from most that are...more
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