Although transport is clearly a major issue in the life cycle of some fish products, this paper finds that the actual fishing stage of the life cycle is by far and away the most significant from a GHG emissions perspective.

The Sea Fish Industry Authority in the U.K and Dr. Peter Tyedmers of Dalhousie University have created a greenhouse gas emission profiling tool for seafood products from capture fisheries. The purpose of this tool is to allow users to explore the carbon implications of sourcing and supplying seafood. This will provide a better understanding of the major contributors to the "carbon footprint" of seafood products. It also provides insight into the influence that some aspects of the seafood production chain have on carbon emissions.

This paper discusses the role of fuel subsidies to the fishing industry and argues that the fuel subsidies can maintain over capacity and unsustainable harvesting of fish in times of inflated fuel prices. The abstract is below. Global fisheries are currently overcapitalized, resulting in overfishing in many of the world’s fisheries. Given that fuel constitutes a significant component of fishing costs, we expect recent increases in fuel prices to reduce overcapacity and overfishing.

This paper calculates that fisheries account for about 1.2% of global oil consumption and directly emit over 130 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.

This paper explores the scale of energy consumed by most segments of the Norwegian fishing fleet for gadoid fish and for parts of the pelagic fleet for the period 1980–2005. Possible means of reducing energy use and emissions are discussed including changing operational strategies, hull forms and the use of alternative energy carriers. The use of liquefied natural gas is reported to be the best short term solution which could give a reduction of the discharge of NOx of 85% and CO2 of about 20%.

A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world's poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham in the UK, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

The Climate Group has published an assessment of the Copenhagen summit together with a shorter Q&A. It concludes that there are positive and less positive points in the Copenhagen Accord: Positive points Having the US, China, India and other major developing countries sign up to a joint climate agreement for the first time. All of these countries making unconditional national pledges to either cut or slow the growth of their emissions and/or implement specific measures to achieve this.