The Life Scientific

RADIO 4, 9.00AM

A new series of The Life Scientific begins this morning, and it starts off with a dive into marine life courtesy of Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Biology at the University of York and expert in the benefits of marine reserves for fishing and conservation. Roberts argues that it is possible, and indeed desirable, to have our fish and eat them too. He discusses his research, which goes back as far the 12th century, and why marine conservation is about more than the meagre and inadequate ambition of maintaining current fish stocks.