How Can Weak EU Marine Action Plans Jump Chasm from Rhetoric to Real Change?
“The ocean's ability to provide us with life support systems like food and carbon sequestration is under threat as a result of the increasingly severe impacts of overfishing, human-induced climate...
NGOs Call Out EU Commission on Conflicting Policies for Fishing Sector Decarbonisation
While the European Commission has just published the EU Action Plan: Energy transition of EU fisheries and aquaculture, NGOs criticised its lack of ambition, and the absence of concrete actions...
Our Fish Response to Leaked EU Action Plan
The European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius needs to jump the chasm between rhetoric and action: by fully implementing the Common Fisheries Policy, especially the provisions...
Annual EU Fisheries Ministers All-Nighter Again Fails to Protect Most Vulnerable Fish Stocks
Today, after a marathon meeting that ran all through the night, EU fisheries ministers have reached an agreement on the fishing opportunities for 2023. Although EU Member States have been...
COP27: Call for UNFCCC and UN to Recognise Fish as “Carbon Engineers”
Fish are Carbon Engineers - that’s the message of a briefing paper released today at COP27 by the Our Fish campaign, which is urging political leaders to act decisively to...
COP27 Comes to Brussels with Message: Fish are Carbon Engineers
As the COP27 summit meeting kicked off this week in Egypt, Members of the European Parliament, EU Commission officials and passersby were invited to decipher a large pyramid puzzle in...
Some good news for overfished stocks in the Baltic Sea but could be too little too late
Baltic Sea EU member states choose to set some quotas at precautionary levels to safeguard depleted fish populations but fail to proactively protect declining herring and cod stocks in the...