NFFO chief Barrie Deas goes head-to-head with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on Newsnight

Story courtesy of the Times 14th May 2014 #eatmorefish

Celebrity chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched a campaign to end the EU policy obliging fishermen to throw fish back into the sea if they can't be sold. The crusade claimed half of all fish caught in the North Sea were being chucked back dead. It was a phenomenally effective campaign which changed the law. But is it possible that one of the most successful mobilizations of public opinion ever seen in the European Union was based upon lies and distortions? That is the claim of the fishing trade, which says the new rules introduced as a result of the campaign are themselves environmentally vandalistic. 

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, and Barrie Deas, who runs the organisation representing fishermen discuss. 

Follow @BBCNewsnight on Twitter
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight

Like BBC Newsnight on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnight

Wonders of #AIS - keeping watch

Nice to know where your seafaring son is while he is at sea - close enough to smell #Marrakesh on the evening air if there's an offshore wind I dare say.

Brixham - the movie

Hold on to your seats as the biggest blockbuster movie of the year hits the screens - Fresh Brixham Fish, a film that will stand alongside other classic tales of fish and daring-do like Moby Dick and the Perfect Storm.

Three years of prawn fishing captured on AIS

Here's something different, the behaviour of 60 or so boats from the Scottish prawn fleet between 2010 and 2013 from cems on Vimeo. Captured in a time lapse video.

Plenty of turbot and monk tails on Newlyn fish market

"Early one morning, just as the sun was rising"...

signs of summer as a few boxes of mackerel come on to the market...

but most of today's fish on offer is monk tails...

and turbot...

heading out to sea...

the inshore boats begin to get away...

a spare engine or two...

as the Shiralee stands off waiting for ice...

time for the youth of the area to get their creative hats on and take part in the Newlyn Art Gallery's latest venture, Drawing a Presence...

things are not so clear for Tom looking over the Bay...

or towards the Mount...

the Darling Bulbs of May.

Intuition takes to sea again

After months of work the crabber Intuition is busy filling her vivier with brown crab and lobster shooting and hauling on the grounds Untiooff Pendeen and Land's End.

NEWS! - New information for buyers, merchants, restaurants, chefs and fishermen

Through the Gaps now features a departures and arrivals board at the top of the page. The box will show when boats that are at sea for a number of days are due to sail and land. A brief summary of the fish being landed and amounts of some will be included. 

Stevensons of Newlyn manage the fish auction