Undercurrent: Danish minister’s call for 70% slash in Baltic cod quota ‘too little, too late’ says NGO
The Danish fisheries minister Eva Kjer Hansen has called on other Baltic countries to substantially cut the fishing quotas for Baltic cod this year, ahead of a total stop in...
European Supermarket Magazine: Environmental Groups Call For End To Overfishing
Environmental protection groups Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Our Fish have called on German minister for agriculture Julia Klöckner to tackle overfishing.
Undercurrent: NGO outcry as latest EU report shows little improvement in ending overfishing
Environmental NGOs have decried a new European Commission report, claiming it shows species such as sardine, hake, and cod could suffer commercial extinctions in European waters in the short term.
Undercurrent: Eastern Baltic cod stock on brink of collapse, report finds
Undercurrent, April 12, 2019: A report published last week by the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) has found that the Eastern Baltic cod population has reached...
Herald Scotland: Accusations of fishy business in UK cod catches as small fish vanish from statistics
The campaign group Our Fish said it was unbelievable that, according to official data, zero tonnes of unwanted fish were landed by the UK fleet between January and mid-November.
Independent: UK vessels illegally threw away 7,500 tons of cod in North Sea, campaigners say
Cod fishing vessels have been accused of illegally dumping thousands of tons of fish into the North Sea in a bid to sidestep strict new European rules.Official data collected by...
EU Reporter: More garbage caught than cod: NGOs call for emergency measures to protect Eastern Baltic Cod
EU Reporter 22 February 2019: More garbage caught than cod: NGOs call for emergency measures to protect Eastern Baltic Cod NGOs in the Baltic Sea Region have sent an urgent...