Welcome to Our Fish Eye!
Welcome to Our Fish Eye, broadcasting from Brussels, where EU fisheries ministers are meeting to negotiate Atlantic and North Sea quotas for 2018 - and coming under increasing pressure to...
Why are Mediterranean Fisheries Failing, while Atlantic Fishing Improves?
The dire state of Mediterranean fisheries has been chronicled by innumerable researchers for many years. It is now reaching a tipping point, with almost half of its sharks and...
Adriatic Test Case: Is MedFish4Ever all talk and no fish?
Within Europe’s most degraded sea, the Mediterranean, lies the Adriatic, and at the centre of the Adriatic Sea lies the Jabuka, or Pomo Pit – a place of superlatives...
World Oceans Day: Let’s Have Reasons to Celebrate the Mediterranean
Today is World Oceans Day. Recently, there’s been much to celebrate throughout our oceans - such as the creation of massive marine protected areas. But some of our oceans, and...
Is Europe in Denial about the Mediterranean Fisheries Crisis?
The Azure Window is no more, but we can still save Mediterranean Fisheries This October, EU Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella will host the annual Our Ocean...
Mediterranean Wildlife Faces Extinction
Many Mediterranean’s animals are endangered, or under threat, such as the monk seal, the loggerhead and green turtle, European hake, Atlantic Bluefin Tuna.
EU vote on fisheries subsidies is a step in the wrong direction
On 27 April, the European Parliament took a step 10 years backwards when it voted in favour of a resolution to allow EU and national subsidies for the construction of...