“It has been invisible, so it has gone largely unheeded, but the wrecking of the seas is now the world’s gravest environmental problem after climate change, British scientists said yesterday.

Such destruction has been caused by over-fishing in the marine environment and only massive protected zones, where all fishing is banned, will allow the sea’s damaged areas to recover, members of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution said.” (Independent.UK)

“While the scientists, the environmentalists, the fishing industry and the politicians wrangle over the future of the seas and oceans, where does this leave the consumer?

Yesterday’s message from the Royal Commission on environmental pollution could not be clearer. At a time when we want to eat more fish and, in particular, oily fish, as part of a healthy diet, there is now unprecedented alarm at the over-fishing of many of these species and the devastating effects of industrialised trawling on the environment. The days when the north Atlantic and the North Sea provided all the cod and plaice we could ever want to eat have long gone, possibly never to return.” (Independent.UK)