EU and Norway strike 2023 fisheries deal
Protracted negotiations between the European Union and Norway have finally culminated in agreement on reciprocal access and quota exchanges for 2023. The deal has been a long time coming, with…
Faroese-Russian fisheries agreement for 2023
The Faroe Islands and Russia have concluded a fisheries agreement for 2023. The agreement includes some changes from the terms of this year’s agreement. The Faroese cod quota in the…
Fisheries agreement between the EU and Madagascar
The EU and Madagascar have agreed on the text of a new sustainable fisheries partnership agreement. This restores the partnership between the EU and Madagascar that had been interrupted in 2018,…
EU-Morocco agreements annulled
The General Court of the European Union has ruled that EU approval of fisheries and agriculture agreements with Morocco must be rescinded in a case brought by the Polisario Front…
The EU and Senegal have agreed to extend their longstanding fisheries partnership. Image: Marga Timon
EU signs fishing agreement protocol with Senegal
The EU and Senegal have signed a new implementing protocol to the existing sustainable fisheries partnership agreement, extending a long-standing fisheries partnership that goes back to 1980. The new five-year…
The agreement provides opportunities for 138 EU vessels to fish in Moroccan waters
Morocco-EU fisheries agreement ratified
An agreement on fisheries between the European Union and Morocco has been struck, the latest in a series of bilateral agreements and implementation protocols going back to 1988. Spanish fishing…
S Simakov and Jóhann Guðmundsson shake on the agreement between Russia and Iceland. Image: Atvinnuvega- og Nýsköpunarráðuneytið
Russia and Iceland strike fisheries deal
Russian and Icelandic officials met this week in Moscow to agree the terms of their 2019 fisheries agreement, referred to as the ‘Loophole Agreement’ after the area of international waters…