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...
Isabella Lövin on Fisheries Management: EU needs to act on the science to preserve oceans – EU Observer
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...
UN Ocean Conference: Scientists Demonstrate Fisheries Solutions to Restore Ocean Health & Mitigate Climate Change
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...
Bonn Climate Conference: NGOs Call for Harnessing of Ocean’s Power in Climate Change Fight
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...
UNFCCC- UN Climate Change: Plenty of Fish? by Rebecca Hubbard
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,...
Scientific Advice: No improvement for collapsed fish stocks – time for a reboot in the Baltic Sea
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...