Seaspiracy: the danger of putting all fishers in the same boat

“There is no such thing as sustainable fishing” “There are no sustainable fishers” “Fishers are worse than serial killers” Social media responses to seaspiracy These are just some of the responses I have seen on social media over the last week in response to the release of the documentary Seaspiracy on Netflix. The show has

The metals in your phone could land us in deep water

Stillness. Stillness and balance until… humans. Deep sea environments have become specially adapted over millions of years to take advantage of the darkness and undisturbed nature of the world 3 miles deep. But then humans, inevitably, arrived to disrupt the peace. At first, it was the low rumble of industrialisation and our ever-growing shipping lanes but

Marine protection or government deception?

UPDATE: a few hours before the release of this the government announced that they are actually going to actually ban bottom trawling in 14,000sqkm of U.K. waters, including Dogger Bank which is referred to in this piece. This is an excellent step forward and a lot of work has gone into making that happen but

Corals in crisis: The plastic pandemic surging through our seas

This was a piece I recently wrote for a module assignment at uni, it was the assignment that inspired me to start this blog so it seems only right to have it as my first post- my starting block.