Our European seas and coastal fishermen using low impact fishing gear are paying the unfair price for decades of overfishing and political prioritisation of short term financial interests of destructive...
With fish populations coming under severe pressure from both climate change and overfishing, the question arises – by ending one problem, can the other be alleviated? And can we do...
Missed our webinar Climate action and overfishing, with Dr Rashid Sumaila on September 2nd? Catch up here! Working Paper: Ending Overfishing Can Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change Press release: Ending...
By 2020 EU Fisheries Ministers must ensure that all fishing in #EU waters becomes sustainable. With less than one year to go to the deadline, is the EU on track?...
Our Fish Programme Director Rebecca Hubbard writes: "By ending overfishing EU Commission Director-General of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries João Aguiar Machado can restore marine biodiversity and build resilience against the...
Every year the EU and Norway meet to discuss how much fish they can catch in each others waters. There is sound scientific advice about how much this should be,...
The European Commission has replied, seeking to assure us - and you - that they are making progress towards ending overfishing. They say that an increase from 56 to 59...
Michael Creed may claim that to demand TACs in-line with scientific advice is politically too difficult. But just as Simon Coveney and other leaders made tough decisions in agreeing to...
The God of the sea, Poseidon, and his Minister of the Ocean arrived in Brussels to deliver 350,000 signatures from EU citizens calling for an end to overfishing. When they...