GFCM Compliance: Conservation and MCS Measures in FRAs
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Legacy: Illegal Fishing
Amend the Public GFCM Authorised Vessel List to Strengthen Compliance and Transparency
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An Essential Fish Habitats Network to Rebuild Mediterranean Fisheries
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Experts highlight the need to stop insuring and financing activities that harm the ocean
A new paper, commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, outlines key actions that can be taken by public and private sectors to transition towards a sustainable ocean economy. Highlighted among these actions, is the need to stop insuring and financing non-compliant activities that are significantly harmful, such as illegal, unreported … Read more
Oceana: EU’s last chance to fulfil the law and stop overfishing
On 16-17 December, the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of the EU (“Agrifish”) will decide on fishing limits in EU Atlantic waters and the North Sea for 2020. For the first time, measures will be approved for Western Mediterranean waters as well. Oceana urges ministers to meet this final extension of the legal deadline to stop … Read more
Mediterranean countries commit to fight illegal fishing and preserve threatened ecosystems
Oceana applauds decisions to increase fisheries transparency, protect threatened corals and preserve breeding grounds adopted by FAO’s General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) in their 43rd session. The enforcement of these measures’ package will be vital to help revert the overfishing crisis of this sea, since they will create areas where fish can … Read more
Using “big data” to evaluate MPA effectiveness – the case of reefs in EU
The study looked into the fishing activity across marine Nature 2000 sites having a focus on variety of protected features protected by the Habitats Directive. Significant incompatible fishing activity was observed inside Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) across all of the European Union (EU), particularly within reef and sandbank habitats types (codes 1170 and 1110).This poster summarizes … Read more
