The EU fishing industry laments and criticizes this week’s ill-informed decision by several fish consumption guides in the EU, run by environmental NGO’s such as GoodFish and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to advise against buying and consuming Northeast Atlantic mackerel . As no other, we understand and share the major concerns about mackerel’s declining biomass, but by ‘red-listing’ now, fish guides deviate from current scientific advice which puts the stock above the precautionary management trigger point. If buyers and retailers follow the advice of the NGO’s,
this will still not improve the chances of successful Coastal States negotiations. What it will do is deal a major blow to the last fleet that is showing restraint and responsibility in this fishery: the EU fleet.
The EU fishing industry laments and criticizes this week’s ill-informed decision by several fish consumption guides in the EU, run by environmental NGO’s such as GoodFish and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to advise against buying and consuming Northeast Atlantic mackerel . As no other, we understand and share the major concerns about mackerel’s declining biomass, but by ‘red-listing’ now, fish guides deviate from current scientific advice which puts the stock above the precautionary management trigger point. If buyers and retailers follow the advice of the NGO’s, this will still not improve the chances of successful Coastal States negotiations. What it will do is deal a major blow to the last fleet that is showing restraint and responsibility in this fishery: the EU fleet.