Fishfight Campaign Timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
09/24/2010	Hugh Boards Seagull Trawler	Hugh joined the crew of the Seagull white fish trawler, and saw the shocking scale of quota-driven discards for himself. View on YouTube.
11/15/2010	Fish Fight Website Launched	The Fish Fight campaign website goes live.
11/16/2010	Hugh Takes The Campaign to Brussels	View on YouTubeHugh travels to Brussels to meet MEP's in an attempt to bring discards to the top of their agenda and highlight the Fish Fight Campaign.
11/17/2010	Hugh Investigates Discards in Ramsgate	Hugh follows some Ramsgate fishermen to sea to land some of the fish they've been forced to discard. View on YouTube
11/23/2010	Hugh Holds a Sustainable BBQ on Westminster Green	Hugh and a fleet of boats sail up the Thames to Westminster to make that point that EU Fisheries policies need to change. View on YouTube.
01/09/2011	Tesco Change Tuna Policy	Tesco escape last place in new tinned tuna league table with spectacular policy u-turn. Read more here.
01/10/2011	Fish Fight Website Re-launch	The Fish Fight campaign website is upgraded and re-launched in preparation for the airing of the Channel 4 programme Hugh's Fish Fight.
01/11/2011	Hugh's Fish Fight Episode 1	The first episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
01/12/2011	Hugh's Fish Fight Episode 2	The second episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
01/13/2011	Hugh's Fish Fight Episode 3	The third episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
01/17/2011	500,000 sign-ups!	Support for the Fish Fight campaign explodes and the amount of sign-ups hits 500,000.
01/17/2011	Sales of Sustainable Seafood Soar	The Guardian reports that sales of "alternative" species of fish and seafood soar after being championed in the Fish Fight campaign. Read the article here.
02/02/2011	Discards is Discussed in Prime Minister’s Questions	Zac Goldsmith MP raised the issue of the Common Fisheries Reform at Prime Minister’s Questions.
02/03/2011	EU Fisheries Comissioner Pledges to End "Nightmare of Discards"	Maria Damanaki, EU commissioner for fisheries, pledges that no more fish will be thrown away by fleets in European seas under reforms soon to be presented to ministers. Read more about it here.
03/01/2011	Damanaki calls an Extraordinary Meeting and Proposes Ban on Discards	Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki proposes to regulate fleets through limits on fishing time and greater use of measures such as CCTV. She speaks with delegates from EU member states in Brussels with the aim of finalising plans later in the year. Read more about it here.
03/02/2011	UK, Denmark, France & Germany Sign Declaration	UK, Denmark, France and Germany sign a declaration, which backs the gradual introduction of discard bans and commits the countries to an ambitious reform of the CFP. Read more here.
03/03/2011	Princes Change Labelling	Princes, the largest tinned tuna supplier in the UK, commit to making a dramatic change in the way they source their tuna. Read more here.
04/12/2011	Morrisons Announces Policy Change	The Independent reports that supermarket chain Morrisons would ban purse seining using fish-aggregating devices, or Fads, by the end of 2013. Full article here.
05/11/2011	Fish Fight window at Selfridges	Fish Fight window
05/12/2011	Fish Fight Motion passed in House of Commons	Fish Fight Motion
05/22/2011	Fish Fight wins BAFTA	BAFTA
07/13/2011	CFP proposal published. Discard ban included	CFP proposal published
08/08/2011	'The Battle Continues' on C4	C4
11/23/2011	Norway, Sweden, Denmark ban discards	discards ban
12/12/2011	60,000 emails sent to MEPs	MEPs
01/30/2012	Rise in sustainable seafood products in the UK	sustainable seafood