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British Isles

Poor Quota Management Decimating Coastal Livelihoods 

Quota can be a highly effective environmental tool for sustainably fishing stocks, but environmental tools work most effectively when they have social licence. Blue Marine has a key concern arising from research conducted in both the UK and around the world, that a poorly constructed quota market can have adverse consequences on fishing communities themselves and therefore perverse consequences on the ground. Environmental legislation is only effective if it supports long term stability in decision-making. 

24 March 2024

Poor Quota Management Decimating Coastal Livelihoods 

Legal Report

British Isles

National Marine Parks - Legal Review

‘Two things are characteristic of this age, and more particularly of this island. The conscious appreciation of natural beauty, and the rapidity with which natural beauty is being destroyed … This passion for natural beauty that consumes so many of us to-day, found recent expression … in the sphere of practical effort …’  

  1. M. Trevelyan, ‘An Autobiography & Other Essays’ (1949) 92

30 June 2023

National Marine Parks - Legal Review

Legal Report

British Isles

The Fisheries Bill: A Cheat's Charter?

The Fisheries Bill represents a rare and crucial opportunity to reshape the future of UK fisheries, impacting how, where, and what we fish for, and determining who benefits from these activities—making it essential that this legislation is carefully crafted to address the longstanding mismanagement of our marine resources. 

22 July 2020

The Fisheries Bill: A Cheat's Charter?

Legal Report

Global

Best Practice in World Fisheries: Lessons for Brexit 

The purpose of this conference was to look at how other countries around the world managed their fisheries and to consider what lessons the United Kingdom might learn from their experience and apply to its own waters in the event of leaving the EU and its Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). 

27 November 2017

Best Practice in World Fisheries: Lessons for Brexit 

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