The European Union Fisheries Control Regulation came into force for vessels over 12 metres in January. Although under-12 fleet still have two years before the regulation is implemented, that hasn’t stopped small-scale…
More than forty small-scale fishers from across Europe gathered this week in Brussels to present Commissioner Costas Kadis, MEPs and stakeholders with a collective roadmap to achieving fair fisheries. ‘Small-scale…
In an open letter addressed to the College of Commissioners, the Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) has called on the European Commission to strengthen its proposed European Ocean Pact…
Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) has announced that its board of directors has elected Gwen Pennarun as new President of LIFE. A longstanding advocate for small-scale fisheries, he succeeds Christian…
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…
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…
Small-scale and coastal fishing people across Europe continue to sign the letter from LIFE Platform to EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, setting out the need for a reset in the way…
Fourteen-year-old fisher Muireann Kavanagh travelled from Arranmore Island in Co. Donegal to the European Parliament in Strasbourg for a series of meetings with MEPs, facilitated by Chris MacManus MEP. She’s…
More than seven years on from the initial court appearance to challenge the allocation by the French authorities of quotas for bluefin tuna, a group of organisations representing small-scale fisheries…
Ideas floated by the European Commission in its proposals for selectivity devices to reduce by-catch in Baltic fisheries have been slammed by European coastal fisheries network LIFE Platform. In a…
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