Catch-22: technology can help solve fishing's environmental issues – but risks swapping one problem for another
Monday, June 8, 2020 - 06:40
in Earth & Climate
Almost a decade ago, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight campaign galvanised public opinion against the senseless waste of discarding fish. At the time this was the common practice of returning unwanted catches to the sea, dead or alive, because fishermen were legally limited from landing them by the EU's quota system.