Cushty Corporation

Some pictures from our trip to the Maldives. Crusing for 2 weeks onboard The Yasawa Princess.

This is nuts: It takes around 6 tonnes of wild fish to reduce to 1 tonne of fishmeal, and then anything from 1.5 to 3 tonnes of meal to produce 1 tonne of farmed salmon. Comprende? we catch and kill 6 tonnes of wild fish to turn it in to 1 tonne of fishmeal…to then feed to other fish…to then kill and eat.

“Farmed fish are fed oils and meal made from other fish: close to a third of the catch from the world’s fisheries is used for non-food products, with the majority being converted into fishmeal and fish oil.” (read more)

Now, I like a salmon steak as much as anyone, but if this is the main way we have of producing ‘farmed’ fish, then something is sadly wrong don’t you think?

Bluefin Tuna and Scuba Diver

This is very worrying. “A proposal to ban the export of Atlantic Bluefin tuna, which is a sushi mainstay in Japan, has been rejected by a UN wildlife meeting. Stocks have fallen by about 85% since the industrial fishing era began”

This quote says it all ” The market for this fish is just too lucrative… for enough governments to support a truly sustainable future for the fish ”

Read more from BBC News

If you want to offer some support for our oceans take a look here: http://endoftheline.com/campaign/

Car Care bliss. Luverly new sheepskin wash mitts to wash my car with . Just delivered from http://www.sheepskinshop.co.uk/ . I know, It’s really far too sad for words. I am ashamed and need help.

Nobody could ever accuse me of being a fan of the Royal Family, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to see the Royal Yacht Britannia. The yacht was retired in 1997 and is now open as a museum piece. It took us a good couple of hours to complete the tour which was well worth the £10.50 entrance fee. Honest . It was really interesting!  The official website : http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/

Here’s a few piccies:

Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens September 2009 – photos