Briefing: Fisheries Management Responds to Climate & Nature Emergency
Ocean-based solutions are an extraordinary opportunity to enlist a powerful ally to tackle climate change.
This report examines the wide-reaching reasons – which are overwhelmingly supported by science – to remove EU fuel subsidies
This report examines the wide-reaching reasons - which are overwhelmingly supported by science - to remove EU fuel subsidies
Report: How the EU can Transition to Low Environmental Impact, Low Carbon, Socially Just Fishing
By activating Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy to reallocate fishing quotas to the “forgotten” small-scale low-impact fleet, the European Commission and member states could enable a transition to...
Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2022
In October 2021, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2022. As the deadline to end overfishing by 2020 at the latest as legally...
Report: Climate Impacts & Fishing Industry Profits From EU Fuel Tax Subsidies
EU tax exemptions for fuel are harmful subsidies that reduce the costs of fishing, therefore leading to an increase of fishing capacity, and thus contributing to overfishing in the European...
Feedback to the European Commission on the CFP’s state of play
NGOS espond to the European Commission’s public consultation on the progress of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) implementation, setting of fishing opportunities and the state of fish stocks.
Joint Statement 52: organisations worldwide urge EU Member States to combat illegal and unsustainable fishing practices: “Require cameras also on vessels below 24 metres”.
A large number of NGOs from across the globe urgently call on EU fisheries ministers to reject proposals, which could be adopted at the end of June 2021, that would...