It’s time to stop trash-talking fish
Matthew L. Miller is an advocate for an update to the regulations for non-game [...]
Matthew L. Miller is an advocate for an update to the regulations for non-game [...]
Shoal releases ‘The World's Forgotten Fishes’ report with WWF and other leading conservation organisations [...]
In October, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the WWF European Freshwater Practice meeting in Berlin. While I was there, I also had a number of meetings aimed to help take Shoal forward in Germany. We are keen to establish a base in Germany to be able to work with companies and hobbyists in Germany and the rest of the European Union.
The trip comes at the tail of a long story of conservation detective work of one of the world’s most charismatic fishes that has led us to take action, in the eleventh hour, to save a critically-endangered fish before it disappears forever.
Most divers are interested in coral reefs and other marine environments, so people used to wonder why I was so keen to see brown fish in brown water! It’s true that a lot of freshwater fish aren’t all that exciting visually, but in fact there are some incredible looking fish out there in rivers and lakes, even if we don’t often get to see them.
So Mike, in a nutshell, what is Shoal? MB: Shoal has been created as [...]