EU Parliament makes strong call to revise Western Med plan
A vote in by the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries vote in favour of a targeted revision of the Multiannual Plan for demersal stocks in the Western Mediterranean makes clear…
Stricter traceability for imported seafood on the EU Parliament agenda
In the wake of the recent revelations concerning the use of forced labour in China’s seafood industry and the opacity of data relating to its distant waters fisheries, the European…
United call to reject Commission’s Nature Restoration Law
Branded unrealistic legislation that endangers farmers and fishers’ livelihoods and food production in the European Union, organisations representing farmers and fishermen are calling for the controversial Nature Restoration Law to…
‘This unprecedented crisis requires swift action,’ said EP Fisheries Chair Pierre Karleskind. Image: EP
PECH committee moves to amend EMFF
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has requested urgent procedures to make swift amendments to the European Fisheries and Maritime Fund, to better support the…
The European Parliament Committee on Fisheries chairman Pierre Karleskind joined last week's Europêche General Assembly. Image: European Commission
Europêche welcomes new PECH chair
The newly elected chair of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries (PECH) joined last week's Europêche General Assembly meeting to discuss the many pressing issues faced by the fishing sector.…
LIFE Platform is urging the Pech Committee to right numerous historic wrongs concerning small-scale fisheries
The CFP has created a distorted sea
More than three decades of successive Common Fisheries Policies have discriminated against and marginalised small-scale low impact fishing and communities, favouring industrialised overfishing, according to small-scale fishing organisation LIFE Platform.…
