An EU plan to pay fishermen to catch plastic will help save our waters from waste while providing fleets with alternative income

Rarely has a TV campaign been won so convincingly. In January this year, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight programme persuaded over 600,000 of us to support a ban on the wasteful practice of throwing dead fish back into the sea. The European commission listened and has announced it intends to ban discarding fish.