{"id":1022,"date":"2018-03-19T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:27:29","slug":"eu-lawmakers-ignore-scientific-advice-on-sustainable-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers &#8220;ignore scientific advice&#8221; on sustainable fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3577.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3577\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3577.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3577-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3577-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a>British fans of fish and chips could celebrate last year, when North Sea cod stocks bounced back enough to again be labelled as sustainable in that country. Yet as whole, Europe\u2019s fisheries are far from healthy. Campaigners and scientists accuse EU politicians of each year giving in to industry lobbyists and setting unsustainable quotas. I went to\u00a0the German cities of Kiel and Hamburg, to talk to some of the scientists whose job it is to advice EU lawmakers on sustainable fisheries. This is my report for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/living-planet-environment-stories-from-around-the-world\/a-19385797\">Living Planet on Deutsche Welle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/415960599&amp;color=%2300aabb&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British fans of fish and chips could celebrate last year, when North Sea cod stocks bounced back enough to again be labelled as sustainable in that country. Yet as whole, Europe\u2019s fisheries are far from healthy. Campaigners and scientists accuse EU politicians of each year giving in to industry lobbyists and setting unsustainable quotas. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}