On Thursday 10 April, the representative body for shipowners Europêche, criticised the advice in several EU fish consumption guides, run by NGOs such as GoodFish and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), not to buy mackerel caught in the North-East Atlantic.
“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”,...