EU Parliament Votes to Ban Electric Pulse Fishing – Our Fish Response
Brussels, 16 January 2018: – Responding to news that MEPs voted 402 to 232 for a prohibition on electric pulse fishing in European waters as part of Technical Measures Regulation,...
Undercurrent: NGOs, fishing groups claim EU has allowed pulse fishing on false grounds
Undercurrent article from January 9 2018, based on this press release. As the European Parliament prepares to vote on whether to restore the 1998 ban on electric fishing, or to authorize its...
Electric fishing: new revelations on a European scandal
8 January 2018: As the European Parliament prepares to vote on whether to restore the 1998 ban on electric fishing or to authorise its wide use throughout Europe, a...
Agrifish meeting outcome angers campaign group
Agrifish meeting outcome angers campaign group Published by Undercurrent News on December 19th, 2017: Outcomes at the Agrifish council meeting, held Dec. 11-13, have allowed overfishing to continue on a...
AGRIFISH: EU Fisheries Ministers Show Unsurprising Lack of Ambition to End Overfishing
Brussels, December 13, 2017:- Despite a legal commitment to end overfishing in European waters by 2015, or progressively by 2020 at the latest, EU fisheries ministers today agreed to forgo...
Celebrities Pose Naked With Fish For Fishlove Campaign To End Overfishing
Brussels, 10 December 2017:- As Europe’s fisheries ministers head to Brussels to debate 2018 fishing quotas, actors and celebrities have called for an end to overfishing by appearing naked with fish...
Our Fish Comment on Norway-EU agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in 2018
Our Fish Comment on Norway-EU agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in 2018 Brussels, 6 December 2017:- Responding to the release of the EU-Norway agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in...