Video: Staying Up All Night To Get Fish (Quota)
Each December, fisheries ministers from all over the EU get together in Brussels to haggle over annual fishing limits for the Atlantic and North Sea. They arrive at the meeting,...
Video: Time to Face the Music: Our Fish Delivers #EndOverfishing message with a Brass Band
In November 2018, Our Fish paid a visit to Bergen, Norway, where a meeting between the EU and Norway to negotiate on joint fish stocks was underway. Fisheries industry representatives...
Raining Fish: Let’s End the Waste
People go about their daily life in the bustling city; then the fish start falling. First one by one, then a deluge – a busker, a policemen, customers queuing for...
How did we get from following scientific advice to seahorse-trading of fishing opportunities?
In 2013, EU member states committed to ending overfishing by 2020 at the latest. In their Communication, the Commission claims progress in doing this, but fails to note that it...
Seaweb, Barcelona: The Fish Fight campaign and Common Fisheries Policy aimed to eliminate discarding in Europe – five years on, are we succeeding?
At the Seaweb Seafood panel in Barcelona: Four different perspectives on discarding in EU waters. "If you can’t eat it, don’t catch it."
World Ocean Day 2018: EU opportunity to make fish discarding history
On World Oceans Day 2018 Our Fish asks politicians across all EU countries, including fisheries ministers, to end overfishing and the waste of fish by supporting remote electronic monitoring, in...
Dutch Fishers Protest Against Their Own Practices
With slogans like 'give baby fish a chance', the fishermen actually protest against their own current practices. There is no significant difference in fish mortality, whether you throw the by-catch...