Letter from NGOs to Danish Fisheries Minister Karen Ellemann
The following letter was sent to Denmark’s Minister for Fisheries and Equal Opportunities and Minister for Nordic Cooperation on February 21st, 2018. Download PDF Version of NGO letter to Minister...
EU Parliament Votes to Ban Electric Pulse Fishing – Our Fish Response
Brussels, 16 January 2018: – Responding to news that MEPs voted 402 to 232 for a prohibition on electric pulse fishing in European waters as part of Technical Measures Regulation,...
Electric fishing: new revelations on a European scandal
8 January 2018: As the European Parliament prepares to vote on whether to restore the 1998 ban on electric fishing or to authorise its wide use throughout Europe, a...
AGRIFISH: EU Fisheries Ministers Show Unsurprising Lack of Ambition to End Overfishing
Brussels, December 13, 2017:- Despite a legal commitment to end overfishing in European waters by 2015, or progressively by 2020 at the latest, EU fisheries ministers today agreed to forgo...
Celebrities Pose Naked With Fish For Fishlove Campaign To End Overfishing
Brussels, 10 December 2017:- As Europe’s fisheries ministers head to Brussels to debate 2018 fishing quotas, actors and celebrities have called for an end to overfishing by appearing naked with fish...
Our Fish Comment on Norway-EU agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in 2018
Our Fish Comment on Norway-EU agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in 2018 Brussels, 6 December 2017:- Responding to the release of the EU-Norway agreement on fishing limits for shared stocks in...
New Report Exposes How Illegal Discarding of Baltic Fish Fails EU Citizens
A report published today on the discarding of Baltic fish reveals that compliance with the reformed Common Fisheries Policy’s Landing Obligation is almost non-existent in the Baltic Sea, exposing the...
Our Fish Response to Reckless Claims by German Fishing Federation Leader
Berlin, 26 October, 2017:- Responding to claims by Peter Breckling, General Secretary of the German Fishing Federation that “in 2019 the cod stocks will be gigantic” in the Baltic Sea, in an...