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Hugh joined the crew of the Seagull white fish trawler, and saw the shocking scale of quota-driven discards for himself. View on YouTube.
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The Fish Fight campaign website goes live.
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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.
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Hugh follows some Ramsgate fishermen to sea to land some of the fish they've been forced to discard. View on YouTube
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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.
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Tesco escape last place in new tinned tuna league table with spectacular policy u-turn. Read more here.
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The Fish Fight campaign website is upgraded and re-launched in preparation for the airing of the Channel 4 programme Hugh's Fish Fight.
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The first episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
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The second episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
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The third episode of Hugh's Fish Fight is broadcasted on Channel 4. Watch it on 4oD here.
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Support for the Fish Fight campaign explodes and the amount of sign-ups hits 500,000.
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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.
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Zac Goldsmith MP raised the issue of the Common Fisheries Reform at Prime Minister’s Questions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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