Danish fisheries under pressure from over-regulation
The new vice-chair of the EU Committee on Fisheries, Danish MEP Asger Christensen, has spent a week touring fishing ports in Jutland and commented that this has been a valuable…
Regulatory nightmare facing tuna fleet
EU regulations on margins of tolerance that are impossible to comply with could force the French tropical tuna fleet out of business by 2026, if rules are not adjusted to…
Europêche and environmental NGOs are in agreement on the need for effective European control rules
Europêche and NGOs join forces on modern, effective and simplified EU fisheries control rules
With the ongoing revision of the EU fisheries control system, Euopean fishing industry association Europêche and the EU IUU Coalition have released a joint statement addressed to EU decision makers,…
The Icelandic government has been quick to respond to the cash-for-quotas scandal that continues to unfold
Iceland seeks to rebuild trust in business
In the wake of the cash-for-quotas scandal that has shaken Iceland’s business community over the last week as fishing company Samherji stands accused of bribing senior government figures in Namibia…