Oz wrote:

Gordon Couger writes

Where are the greens and environmental groups when governments and
businesses are really raping the planet.

To be honest the problem has been well aired by marine scientists for
decades. I don't think eco-green groups consider it much of a
moneyspinner.

I don't know where you live, but here in Sweden it has been a big
issue for many years among our major environmental groups and there
has at least been some effect on what kind of fish people buy.

I don't see the EU pressuring
anyone to cut their fishing fleets or doing any manful cuts in their own.

They have been trying for years, and introduced many cuts and
restrictions over the last decade or so. All bitterly fought by
fishermen who, with already marginal catches, are not well placed to
survive restrictions.

On the other hand EU also has been busy "buying" fishing rights outside
Africa to get new fish stocks to plunder when the local waters are
depleted.

There is much cheating, particularly by spanish trawlers.

By almost everyone, I'm afraid.