The European Commission is proposing a revision of the EU tools designed to address unsustainable fishing practices by non-EU countries on fish stocks of common interest. According to the Commission,…
The European Commission has adopted its proposal for the 2025 TACs and quotas for nine out of the ten stocks managed by the EU in the Baltic. The remaining quota…
An event organised in Brussels by Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) has marked five years of emergency management of Baltic fisheries designed to protect the Eastern Baltic cod stock…
European fishing operators, represented by Europêche, have responded to the tripartite mackerel deal struck between Norway, the Faroe Islands and the UK, dismissing it as seeking to legitimise continuous overfishing…
The European Commission has launched a consultation to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the common fisheries policy (CFP). This consultation constitutes the first part of a thorough evaluation intended…
The European Commission has launched two consultations to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of past and current funding programmes for fisheries and maritime activities. The first of these aims to…
There’s positive and negative news in the European Commission’s assessment of fish stocks, which will untimately have a strong bearing on the TACs and quotas for 2025. The Commission’s Sustainable…
Long critical of the European Commission’s unfortunate grouping together of environment, oceans and fisheries within a sngle portfolio, industry body Europêche has welcomed the pledge by Commission President Ursula von…
Its failure to get to grips with illegal fishing has resulted in Senegal being given a yellow card by the European Commission. Although this does not affect trade with the…
Signed by 37 organisations representing thousands of fishing people across Europe, an open letter delivered this week to Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans & Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius outlines the steps…