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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Regin Winther Poulsen and Agostino Petroni

DARK SECRETS: Atlantic overfishing was already a problem then brexit happened | Vintage Vibes

A fly-shooter vessel's net bulges with fish
Fishers in the north-east Atlantic have in recent years caught 66%-86% more mackerel, herring and blue whiting than scientists agree is safe. Photograph: Kristian Buus/Greenpeace

It’s a calm summer afternoon off Fraserburgh in northern Scotland, and Luke Duthie is hunting mackerel.

His 8-metre-long (26ft) boat is equipped with sonar that soon shows a large red cloud about 15 metres below the surface. He dashes out of the cabin and on to the deck, lowers the twin fishing lines and watches them dance in the waves. But the fish aren’t biting.

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