“Sustainable” fishing is a myth

Going to work can be stressful. The Danish Employers' Association (DA) tries to contradict this claim in its podcast "Mythbusters". But DA's arguments miss the mark, writes the chief analyst from the Danish Labour Movement's Business Council in this column.

Nearly a thousand meters deep, in very cold waters, lives the Pez Roca (group Trachichthyidae), in the Eastern Pacific. It is a fish that matures very slowly, can live more than a century and reproduces for the first time until the age of 30. It dwells on gardens of ancient black corals. In them, peacefully, the Pez Roca spreads its first eggs delicately. Suddenly, a gigantic trawling net approaches devastating the entire seabed like a monstrous…