Political decisions in recent decades have brought the UK’s fisheries to the point of collapse. Marine life, fishers, coastal communities and the wider UK public are all suffering. These problems have deep historical roots, but the ocean has remarkable powers of recovery. Simple choices by the government can begin to turn the tide.
Apocalypse Now: The True Cost of Overfishing
Political decisions over recent decades have brought many of the UK’s fish populations, and the fisheries dependent upon them, to the point of collapse. At the heart of this failure lies continues and extensive overfishing.
15 September 2026
