Undercurrent: EU agency reports ‘high level’ of illegal, unreported discarding
The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) has documented a high level of illegal and unreported discarding of fish by EU fleets in the North Sea and Northeast Atlantic, said NGO...
Open Access Government: How EU decisions affect fish, the ocean and life on earth
Rebecca Hubbard, Programme Director of the Our Fish campaign, reveals precisely how EU decisions affect fish, the ocean and life on earth
Euronews: The EU’s Green Deal plans to restore nature must include our largest ecosystem – the ocean
The EU Commission cannot hope to deliver real world change with an EU Green Deal if it simply facilitates or rewards the same behaviour that created the problem in the...
EU Observer: EU failed to end overfishing by 2020: lost opportunity?
The agreement reached in December demonstrates "that fisheries ministers cannot be entrusted with restoring healthy ocean ecosystems," said Rebecca Hubbard, programme director at NGO Our Fish.
European Scientist: New EU fishing quotas continue to promote overfishing
After tense all-night talks in Brussels, the council of European ministers agreed on 2020 catch limits for Europe’s most important fish stocks early on Wednesday 20 December. While ministers...
The Guardian: EU ministers opt to continue overfishing, despite 2020 deadline
“They’re just not getting it,” said Rebecca Hubbard, programme director at Our Fish. “Demonstrating a shocking ignorance of the global biodiversity and climate crisis, the EU council of fisheries ministers...
Euronews: Shona Murray talk to Rebecca Hubbard of Our Fish
As the EU AGRIFISH Council meeting closed in Brussels this morning following all-night negotiations, the Our Fish campaign blasted EU fisheries ministers for not only failing to meet their own...