As EU States Haggle Over Fish Quotas, Can Commissioner Sinkevičius Save the Baltic?
As EU Fisheries Ministers gather today in Luxembourg to set fishing limits for the Baltic Sea in 2021, a series of messages to EU Commissioner Sinkevičius and Baltic state fisheries...
Minister McConalogue Must Take Steps to Reinstate Ban on Trawlers in Coastal Waters to Ensure Ireland’s Sustainable Fisheries
Responding to the news that Ireland’s High Court has overturned the ban on vessels larger than 18m from operating within the country’s six nautical mile inshore waters, Birdwatch Ireland and...
End Overfishing: 300 Scientists Urge EU To Protect Ocean Health As Climate Action
“End overfishing” - that’s the message delivered to EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius this week, as part of a statement signed by more than 300...
EU Council of Ministers Urged to Take Decisions to Counter Baltic Sea Fisheries Crisis
NGOs today called on EU Baltic state governments to adopt most of the Commission’s proposed measures - and to go a step further by putting a stop to overfishing of...
Scientists Launch Call to EU: Ending Overfishing Is Climate Action
More than 60 leading scientists sign statement calling for action by European Commission, European Parliament & EU member states to end overfishing.
Baltic Sea Fish Stocks Remain in Crisis – NGOs Call for Closures of Herring and Cod stocks
Responding to today's publication of annual scientific advice for EU fishing limits for 2021 in the Baltic Sea by ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea), which finds...
To Become a Global Ocean Leader, Germany Must End Overfishing
“Over the last 20 years the EU has overfished an abhorrent nine million tonnes of fish, and as the fifth worst for overfishing among EU Member States, Germany is far...