Empowering EU Fisheries Policy to Restore Marine Health, Tackle Climate Change and Create Jobs
The report, authored Vertigo Lab and commissioned by the Our Fish campaign, Empowering EU Fisheries Policy to Restore Marine Health, Tackle Climate Change and Create Jobs, finds that “the reallocation...
Report: Better Use of Public Money: the End of Fuel Subsidies for the EU Fishing Industry
The EU fishing fleet is exempted from paying fuel taxes; these fuel-tax exemptions are indirect capacity-enhancing subsidies. High fuel prices and taxation can incentivise faster decarbonisation of industries, hence such...
New Paper: Fish are Carbon Engineers – COP27
We urgently need to protect the ocean carbon system so that fish and marine animals can continue to capture, sequester and store carbon. Ecosystem-based fisheries management can achieve this by...
Letter: Civil Society Urges EU and UK to End Overfishing of Shared Stocks
Soon, the EU and the UK delegations will be back at the negotiation table to decide on the future of our fisheries in 2023, which will have consequences for years...
Letter to European Commissioner: Including Russian seafood and fishing vessels in upcoming EU sanctions
Now is the moment to call for global alignment in approaches to catch certificates, to ensure that illegal seafood does not reach our plates.
Joint NGO feedback to the European Commission on the Common Fisheries Policy’s state of play and orientations for 2023
On behalf of Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND), ClientEarth, Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, Ecologistas en Acción, The Fisheries Secretariat, France Nature Environnement, De Nederlandse Elasmobranchen Vereniging, Stichting...
Briefing paper: Decarbonising the EU Fishing Fleet – Opportunities, Challenges and Critical Elements for a Necessary Transition
On the 14th of June 2022, we held a workshop during which experts presented the decarbonisation solutions available in the maritime sector, followed by a discussion with various stakeholders on...