Undercurrent: NGOs claim Baltic proposals ignore science on safe fishing levels
The European Commission (EC)'s latest proposals for fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea ignore scientific advice for some of the stocks, NGOs Our Fish and the Fisheries Secretariat (FishSec) have...
European Interest: Baltic fishing limits ‘still too far from safe’
Published on 4 September 2018 on European Interest: Baltic fishing limits ‘still too far from safe’ The European Commission is again choosing to propose fishing limits above what science says...
The Parliament: EU fisheries: Commission accused of lacking ambition
The attack comes as part of a public consultation exercise launched by the Commission on fishing opportunities for 2019, under the common fisheries policy (CFP). The aim of the exercise...
Food Watch: Danish consumption of fish now exceeds domestic fishing
220/5000 August 15th was the day when the Danes had eaten the amount of fish fished at home this year, the organization concluded Our Fish. The cut date fell 30...
Undercurrent: Our Fish: EU retailers, fishing firms need to collaborate against discards as ban approaches
By Matilde Mereghetti, Undercurrent: July 19, 2018 09:40 BST Collaboration between civil society, the fish catching and retail sectors and government agencies is necessary to achieve an end to the...
Geographical: Is the Mediterranean becoming a second ‘Dead Sea’?
Officially declared the world’s ‘most overfished sea’, the Mediterranean is having a crisis beneath the surface … It states that among the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions showed the highest...
Euractiv: EU opportunity to make fish discarding history
This year on World Oceans Day, Our Fish is asking politicians across all EU countries, not least national fisheries ministers, to accept our challenge to end overfishing and the waste...