EU Eel Evaluation Roadmap: NGO submission
Evaluation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1100/2007 of 18 September 2007 establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of European eel. “We strongly support the upcoming evaluation and welcome...
Reaction: Why is the EU Pursuing Embarrassment Instead of Sustainable Fisheries Management?
Brussels, 25 April 2018:- Responding to findings published in the newly published STECF (Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries) report on progress towards implementation of the reformed Common Fisheries...
Save Our Seas: 172,120 EU Citizens Deliver Demand to Environment and Fisheries Ministers
Sofia, Bulgaria, 10 April 2018:- As the Council of EU Environment Ministers meeting opens today in Sofia, 172,120 signatures from EU citizens calling for the EU to protect our...
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...