Agli inglesi del fish and chips è stato detto di evitare completamente di mangiare il merluzzo catturato nel Regno Unito in un contesto di crisi demografica. Gli ambientalisti avvertono che le popolazioni di merluzzo sono “a livelli pericolosamente bassi”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-cod-fish-uk-population-crisis-b2954326.html
di ByGollie
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They were saying this when I left the UK thirty years ago…
The Cod are also Brexiting.
Icelander here: And the British wonder why we didn’t want them fishing in our waters.
Slight headline editorialisation inserting locations and byline for clarity.
[ICES recommendation](https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Cod_i_Gadus_morhua_i_in_Subarea_4_divisions_6_a_and_7_d_and_Subdivision_20_North_Sea_West_of_Scotland_eastern_English_Channel_and_Skagerrak_/27202566?file=58188958) on COD in UK catchement waters.
[ICES Factsheet (PDF)](https://www.ices.dk/about-ICES/projects/EU-RFP/EU%20Repository/ICES%20FIshMap/ICES%20FishMap%20species%20factsheet-cod.pdf)
[Article by Angling Trust](https://anglingtrust.net/2025/09/25/cod-crisis-ices-recommends-zero-catch-in-the-north-sea/) with more detail
This is stupid. Even from just a level of basic humane treatment, we should be engaging in breeding programmes and sanctuary areas.
Shouldn’t the emphasis be on fishermen being told not to catch it? Telling people not to eat it once it’s in the fish shop seems kind of too late.
Shouldn’t they stop fishing then?
Hey Barry, dont you even think of buying Norwegian or icelandic cod.
All their cod is already reserved for us portuguese. Start a captive breeding program
Why can’t we eat other types of fish in this country. So many entrenched people
How about a 5 year moratorium? Only chips, no fish.
Wasn’t fishing as much as they want one the main arguments they gave the public for Brexit?
This is exactly why iceland monitors their cod population before fishing quotas are handed out
Eastern Europeans could’ve showed you how to make great fish and chips from carp and wels catfish, but you decided “Eww, we don’t want them with” with Brexit…
Sorry, but you can’t ask consumers to regulate themselves – they’ll just eat MORE cod “before it disappears”.
Regulate the damn industry.
Cod levels have been low for decades. Pretty sure they had this headline in the 90s.
Fisher are the plunder of the ocean
Overfishing is a massive problem, and Chinese fishermen are the worst for it