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...
EU Fisheries Ministers’ All Night Debate Leads To Continued Baltic Overfishing of Cod
Luxembourg, 10 October 2017: Campaign organisation Our Fish this morning slammed the decision by EU fisheries ministers to set 2018 western Baltic cod quotas four times higher than cautious scientific...