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Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) and Humane Society International (HSI) has found. The report found that across several years, the amounts of fins recorded as exported from Australia were less than that reported by countries receiving the fins and in some cases, the discrepancy was reversed. The report also found no record of the associated shark meat in the export data which raises the question of where this meat is ending up. Based on the report's comprehensive investigation, both AMCS and HSI state that the Australian Government needs to urgently review its recording and moni...

The orange roughy. Photo Wikipedia. The battle for the ‘roughy has been a tough road for conservationists and hopefully, this win will be the last fight. An appeal by the fishing industry to overturn a ruling on the sustainability of fishing for a long-lived Australian fish – the orange roughy – has failed following a long battle for science and Australian environmental laws to be respected. An independent adjudicator threw out the appeal by consultants hired by the fishing industry – MRAG Americas. It means the orange roughy cannot be certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardsh...