Plans by the UK to shut a large area of the Dogger Bank to fishing have hit the EU fishing sector hard – not least since while the UK was…
Dutch fishermen’s movement EMK is planning to take its protest against the growth of North Sea wind farms and European fisheries policies to Amsterdam this summer with a public march through the capital to raise awareness of the challenges facing the industry.
The Dutch Fishermen's Association is lobbying to keep space in the North Sea for fisheries. With Brexit approaching and the mushrooming plans for wind farms, Natura 2000 areas, solar panels recent proposal for a runway at sea, more and more rich fishing grounds is being taken away.
JNCC and partners the Marine Management Organisation, Natural England, the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations and Bangor University are launching a two-year project exploring participatory processes for establishing, evaluating and adapting fisheries management measures in MPAs that include sedimentary habitats as protected features.
If your work brings you into contact with Marine Protected Areas, do you see them as positive in providing benefits or negative in limiting what you can do? Do they support or restrict your business or other activities, and how do they contribute to the blue economy?
A workshop held in Tangier by the General Fisheries Council of the Mediterranean (GFCM) within the framework of the 2016 Forum of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean, and by the Network of Marine Protected Area Managers in the Mediterranean (MedPAN), reiterates the role played by MPAs.
The establishment of the world’s largest MPA to date in the Ross Sea area of the Antarctic has been welcomed by both green organisations and fishing companies and organisations.
Proposals to close the Hauraki Gulf and Marlborough Sounds to commercial fishermen have been criticised by New Zealand’s commercial fishermen as a cynical vote-gathering move.
Europêche president Javier Garat has pointed out that Marine Protected Areas are tools to be used towards specific objectives, not objectives themselves, commenting in response to the IUCN motion for 30% of waters of globally to be placed off-limits.
The Seafood Harvesters of America has criticised the Obama government decision to establish the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.