EU Commission sends formal warning to Denmark for failing to properly control fisheries
Environmental organizations ClientEarth and Our Fish welcomed a decision by the European Commission to follow-up on infringement proceedings against Denmark for failing to properly control fishing practices, and illegal misreporting...
Euronews: Landing Obligation Comes into Force
Rebecca Hubbard, Program Director of Our Fish, speaks to Euronews on the EU landing obligation to end wasteful discarding of fish in EU fisheries, January 1st, 2019
RTE: ‘Discard ban’ on fish to come into effect on 1 January
RTE: ‘Discard ban’ on fish to come into effect on 1 January Rebecca Hubbard of the Our Fish campaign said that this should have been the year EU ministers...
The Guardian: EU fishing quotas pose risk to some stocks, say campaigner
Fiona Harvey, in The Guardian, 19 December 2018: EU fishing quotas pose risk to some stocks, say campaigners – Ministers setting limits for 2019 accused of ignoring scientific advice on overfishing...
Independent, UK: New European fishing quotas ‘disregard science and law’, environmental lawyers say
Ministers ‘ignoring scientific evidence’ and haggling over fishing quotas ‘like kids trading football cards’, say campaigners Campaigners have described the levels as “very modest progress”, and said the council was...
Undercurrent: EU agrees 2019 quotas as Brexit, landing obligation loom on horizon
This should have been the year in which fishing quotas finally followed scientific advice, and EU fisheries ministers made history by ending overfishing in EU waters. Instead, we saw another...
The Guardian: Why the battle to fix Europe’s fisheries policy isn’t over yet
Overfishing in EU waters, and the wasteful practice of discarding edible fish at sea, should come to an end from next year, as reforms to the common fisheries policy (CFP)...