Posts Tagged ‘Uk bycatch’
Goodbye Bycatch – what have we achieved and what’s next?
Thank you to everyone who’s got involved with our campaign to stop dolphins, porpoises and whales dying in fishing gear in UK seas to put fish and shellfish on our plates. We’ve loved seeing all your support on social media and appreciated every single person who took action by emailing the fisheries minister or contacting…
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Seaspiracy
Ali and Lucy Tabrizi’s Netflix film Seaspiracy is compelling viewing for anyone who cares for the ocean. The film covers many of the issues WDC cares most deeply about – the fight to stop whaling, the crisis of plastic and chemical pollution and, most of all, the appalling damage being wrought by widespread, poorly managed…
Read MoreReal lives lost – the true dolphin, porpoise and whale stories behind the bycatch statistics
Every dolphin, porpoise and whale who dies in fishing gear was an individual with their own life story. They probably had a family and friends, a culture and an identity. Each death is a tragedy that didn’t have to happen and a life we had the power to save. I’m going to to tell you…
Read MoreNo more dolphin, porpoise and whale deaths in UK fishing gear – join us in saying ‘Goodbye Bycatch’
More than 1,000 dolphins, porpoises and whales die in fishing gear in UK seas every year and this is known as ‘bycatch’. Here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation we’ve just launched a major campaign to stop these tragic deaths and we are providing the solutions governments need to make this happen. Tell the government you…
Read MoreNorway takes action to save porpoises from death in nets
The Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced new regulations on the use of acoustic transmitters (pingers) to try to save large numbers of porpoises and other marine mammals from becoming entangled and dying in fishing nets. In what the government describes as a rapid regulatory change, fishers in parts of Norway will now…
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WDC highlights how UK Government can save a dolphin a day
As WDC launches a campaign to stop around a thousand whales, dolphins and porpoises dying in nets and other fishing gear each year, a new report issued today from experts at WDC and co-sponsor of the study HSI (Humane Society International), outlines action the UK and devolved Governments can take now to lead the world…
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