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Fish farms in the ocean disrupt the ecosystem. The overcrowding in fish farms is responsible for the spread of diseases in wild fish. The toxic food that the farmed fish …

Scientists believe that no less than 98% of marine plant and animal life live in or on the ocean floor. Large numbers of them live around underwater mountains, also called …

In the northern Atlantic Ocean blue whiting is currently being excessively and irresponsibly fished. In Iceland alone 276 million kilos of it. The majority of this is processed into fish …

Overfishing is prevalent along most of the world’s coasts. The consequences: 1. Fishing fleets target increasingly small species so that they no longer have enough time to mate. 2. Fishing …

Unless drastic measures are taken, the waters around Europe, and elsewhere, will start to look like a desert, and an empty fishpond. Fishermen often forget that they only harvest and …

Ancient Greeks used to stand on bluffs to watch for schools of tuna passing the shore. Today, fishing fleets stalk the fish across thousands of miles of ocean with helicopters, …

Fishing for tuna was once very efficient. In the Mediterranean it was the huge tuna such as the Sicilian Mattanza that was fished. But that is a thing of the …

Tsukiji market in Tokyo, a national sanctuary that is the symbol (and soon to be in the past tense) for the ‘inexhaustibility of the sea’ where 600 million kilos of …

Stop whaling. On 12 September 2010 ‘A Night for the Oceans’ was organised. A fund-raising event for Sea Shepherd with the cooperation of Noble-House aimed at protecting and cherishing our …

Every once in a while, it’s nice to read about positive developments for our oceans and the fishing industry. Large international fishing fleets and customers have come together with the …

1500 scientists recently warned that human activity, such as destructive fishing is causing the volume of catches to plummet. If we do not change course radically we can expect to …

Amanprana sponsors Sea Shepherd’s ‘Brigitte Bardot’. Don’t eat tuna – the fight for tuna-free restaurants. Sea Shepherd’s ‘Brigitte Bardot’ visits Antwerp (MAS museum) On 15 September 2011 Amanprana visited the …