Regin Winther Poulsen is a Faroese freelance journalist who has covered the environment, the ocean, and geopolitics for several media outlets, including The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Follow The Money, and others.
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After several years of overfishing, Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks are reaching a critical point.
Overfishing over the past decade has largely been due to coastal states such as Norway, the U.K., the Faroe Islands, and the E.U. being unable to come to a quota-sharing agreement with every player involved, resulting in unilateral quotas that exceed recommended catch totals from the International Council on Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
Last
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An art student at a university in Iceland used the branding of Akureyri, Iceland-based fishing and processing company Samherji to issue a fake apology for the firm’s role in an infamous corruption scandal in Namibia.
Now, Samherji now wants the High Court of London to force the artist to take his artwork down.
The international fishing conglomerate has filed a complaint against Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson, an artist who created the
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