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Global fish stocks have been perilous for decades – so why is still so little being done?

10 January 2026 9:00 am

Dredgers continue to destroy the seabed, illegal fishing vessels routinely encroach on no-take zones and governments persist in granting unsustainable catch quotas to their national fleets

Why are the sailors who first braved the Atlantic so often ignored?

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Long before Columbus crossed the ocean in 1492, the Phoenicians had discovered the Azores, and by the year 1000 Norse men and women were eking out an existence in Greenland

Feeding the world

27 August 2022 9:00 am

The Shetland Islands and the Faroes may seem to be somewhere out there in distant waters, marginal and in the…