The agreement reached in December demonstrates "that fisheries ministers cannot be entrusted with restoring healthy ocean ecosystems," said Rebecca Hubbard, programme director at NGO Our Fish.
After tense all-night talks in Brussels, the council of European ministers agreed on 2020 catch limits for Europe’s most important fish stocks early on Wednesday 20 December. While ministers...
“They’re just not getting it,” said Rebecca Hubbard, programme director at Our Fish. “Demonstrating a shocking ignorance of the global biodiversity and climate crisis, the EU council of fisheries ministers...
As the EU AGRIFISH Council meeting closed in Brussels this morning following all-night negotiations, the Our Fish campaign blasted EU fisheries ministers for not only failing to meet their own...
Ocean Avengers Demand EU Prime Ministers End Overfishing. Poseidon, god of the sea, Captain Science, Climate X, Citizen Fish and Lady Justice arrive in Brussels to ask EU Prime Ministers...
EU-Norway consultations consistently result in agreements to continue overfishing. This is in no small part due to a bewilderingly flawed approach: by assuming the scientific advice for maximum sustainable catches...
Seafood campaign groups Our Fish and Open Seas have called for urgent measures to stop illegal discarding of juvenile and vulnerable fish species to allow dwindling fish stocks to recover.
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...
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...