Tackle Climate Change, Start With Ending Overfishing
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...
Video: Poseidon Asks the EU To End Its Addiction To Overfishing
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...
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."