December is an important month for seabass. That's when the European Council of Ministers is due to vote on total catches allowed to EU members in 2017.
Sustain member the Marine Conservation Society says that seabass have been so overfished that none at all should be caught in 2017, to allow the population to start to recover.
That will not happen -- but there's a possibility that the catch could be significantly limited, which research suggests would give the seabass a fighting chance.
The MCS is asking people to write to Fisheries Minister George Eustice, the UK's representative at the Council of Ministers, to remind him that the UK takes the issue seriously.
Sustainable Fish: A campaign to protect precious marine environments and fishing livelihoods, and call for fish to be bought from sustainable sources. We want to show what can be done if people and organisations make a concerted effort to change their buying habits.
