LAST-MINUTE reservations from four countries, including the UK, may sink the historic announcement of a network of marine protected areas over key areas of the mid-Atlantic Ridge and basin, campaigners at WWF have warned.

THE government has announced changes to the departments that have responsibility for food labelling policy in England, including the labelling of fish products.

THE UK’s first offshore, rope-cultured mussel farm has been given the go-ahead today after the Crown Estate granted a lease to Offshore Shellfish Ltd (OSL) to develop the project in Lyme Bay, Devon.

THE advance of zebra mussels into Northern Ireland’s freshwater lakes has gone a step further with their discovery at Lough MacNean in Co Fermanagh.