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...
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...
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...
In the coming months, the European Commission will publish an action plan described in the EU's 2020 Biodiversity Strategy and an expected evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy. These need...
Watch the video recording Lisbon, 27 June 2022:- In a world first, marine scientists presented a groundbreaking series of papers (see below) that show how effective fisheries management can...
NGOs attending the UN Climate Conference in Bonn welcomed today’s first annual UN Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue - aimed at strengthening ocean-based action on climate change - but called...
Overfishing – when more fish are caught than can be replaced through natural reproduction – is one of the biggest issues marine ecosystems face today. This can happen either directly,...
Responding to today's publication of annual scientific advice for 2023 fishing limits in the Baltic Sea by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), a group of...
“Our Fish welcomes the outcome of the PECH Committee vote, which sends a clear message to the EU Commission that it must do more to guide EU member states, and...