Blue Marine Foundation’s Co-Founder and Senior Consultant, Charles Clover, has shared his opinions on how initial high hopes for what the Fisheries Act could achieve have been let down in the five years since its establishment. Charles highlights the continuation of the overfishing crisis and an inequitable quota system that is leaving many fishers struggling to make ends meet. He says, ‘The act was meant to ensure that fishing was managed sustainably, but a High Court challenge brought by Blue Marine Foundation showed that ministers cannot be held accountable for failing to apply its objectives’.
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