Danish scrapping payments approved
The Danish authorities have approved grants totalling DKK203 million to decommission 31 fishing vessels. This round of scrapping grants is directly as a result of lost fishing opportunities due to…
Dutch decommissioning set to take out quotas
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) opened at the beginning of this month a decommissioning scheme for the Dutch fleet, backed by a €155 million fund. A sticking point for the…
Irish Minister welcomes state aid approval for Brexit voluntary decommissioning scheme
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has welcomed the State Aid approval to facilitate the implementation of the voluntary decommissioning scheme for the whitefish fishing fleet…
Provisional EU measures to decommission Baltic fishing capacity have been agreed
Provisional agreement on Baltic fleet reduction
The European Parliament, Council and Commission have reached a provisional agreement on legislation that would allow fishing people affected by the dire condition of certain fish stocks in the Baltic…