I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
How Much Do Chemical Bans Really Cost Yesterday ECHA produced a report entitled “Estimating the abatement costs of hazardous chemicals. A review of the results of six case studies”. The report looks at how to work out the cost of the substitution of hazardous chemicals. The costs of substituting one chemical for another are … Read more
Fishing for the Future On 6 February 2013, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of an ambitious reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. 502 elected politicians embraced the future and backed an overhaul of a failed policy. The voting was heavily along national lines. Nearly every British MEPs backed reform. German Socialists and Christian … Read more
Brazil’s Parliament has just voted to ban secret voting by Brazil’s Members of Parliament. The BBC reported that the public became appalled at the wide spread secrecy of voting in Brazil’s Parliament. The public took to the streets in mass demonstrations again the widespread political corruption. One of their demands was to end secret voting … Read more
Swim to the Baltic Last night I landed up being very distracted. The European Commission is recommending the TAC for western Baltic cod and to increase by 7% to 65,934 tonnes. Surely, this was a mistake. In 2004, ICES, the scientists European and other governments ask to recommend how many fish can be caught from … Read more