Undercurrent News: Report: EU progress too slow on rebuilding fisheries by 2020, April 27, 2018: Campaign group Our Fish has said the recently-issued Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STEFC)...
Article – ‘Fishing the last fish’: Is the EU doing enough to protect fisheries? by Lars Bevanger, Deutsche Welle, 22 February 2018: Campaigners say EU politicians under pressure from industry routinely...
January 16, 2018: Defying Brussels, EU parliament calls for ban on electric pulse fishing The European Parliament called Tuesday for a ban on electric pulse fishing in the European Union, defying...
The Times, UK, January 17, 2018: Trawlers head for ban on shock fishing by Ben Webster. MEPs voted by 402 votes to 232 yesterday for a total ban on “pulse fishing”, which...
January 17th 2018: Respaldo del PE a una prohibición definitiva de la pesca eléctrica El Parlamento Europeo (PE) ha apoyado las reivindicaciones de las organizaciones ecologistas y ha pedido la prohibición...
By Fiona Harvey in the Guardian, January 16th, 2018: Rebecca Hubbard, programme director of Our Fish, one of a group of conservation groups lobbying for the EU pulse fishing ban...
From Undercurrent, 16 January 2018: Members of European parliament have voted in favor of prohibiting electric pulse fishing in European waters, at the technical measures regulation vote on Jan. 16....
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...
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...