Undercurrent: EU must ‘make Green deal blue’, honor overfishing targets, NGO insists
The NGO OurFish has demanded that the EU honors its pledge to end overfishing by 2020 in response to the EU Council's adoption of the Conclusions on Oceans and Seas...
Rebecca Hubbard: How EU decisions affect fish, the ocean and life on earth
With fish populations coming under severe pressure from both climate change and overfishing, the question arises – by ending one problem, can the other be alleviated? And can we do...
Euractiv: EU Council follows Commission’s line, trims Baltic fishing quota
EU ministers have clinched a midnight deal in Luxembourg on the fishing quota limit in the Baltic Sea for 2020, following the Commission’s proposal to decrease the total allowable catches...
VoxEurope: Ending Overfishing in Northern Europe: A fishy game
The North Sea is no exception to the overfishing spree across Europe. As discussions are ongoing between Norway and the EU, scientists issue their latest warning on collapsing cod stocks....
Ending overfishing could increase ocean resilience, report says
A new report commissioned by the advocacy group Our Fish suggests that ending overfishing will help the oceans weather the effects of climate change. Overfishing is weakening the oceans' ability...
Atlas of the Future: Fishyleaks website exposes fishy business
The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity in EU waters.
The Parliament: A wake-up call for EU fisheries ministers
A wake-up call for EU fisheries ministers Opinion, The Parliament, 31 July 2019 The latest scientific advice from The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) makes for...