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December 20, 2017
Mediterranean countries commit at UN meeting to protect endangered corals
Mediterranean countries agreed today to legally protect endangered cold-water corals in the Mediterranean Sea from harmful human activity at a UN Environment meeting in Albania. The 22 members of the…
December 13, 2017
EU ministers decide to continue overfishing in the Atlantic waters in 2018
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council (Agrifish) late Tuesday night agreed on fishing limits for the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea for 2018. The Council’s decision is based on the…
December 8, 2017
EU fails to reach ambitious deal on management of North Sea fisheries
Brussels — Despite an optimistic vote in September at plenary session in the European Parliament to end overfishing, the key 3 EU institutions failed to reach an ambitious deal in…
December 7, 2017
Oceana urges EU ministers to speed up recovery of Atlantic fisheries
Oceana urges EU fisheries ministers to set sustainable fishing limits for the North-East Atlantic and the North Sea for the coming year, as the most straightforward way to rebuild fish…
November 14, 2017
Denmark is one of the world’s largest importers and exporters of fish and fish products.If Danish fisheries were healthy and well managed over the next ten years, the total revenues…
November 7, 2017
Oceana calls on the EU to recover Atlantic fisheries in 2018
Brussels – The European Commission published today its annual proposal on total allowable catches (TACs) in the Atlantic and the North Sea for 2018, which will be decided on the…
October 10, 2017
EU’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) today reached an agreement on fishing limits for Baltic stocks for 2018. Regrettably, the Council decided to set the western Baltic cod quota at…
October 3, 2017
Oceana: EU ministers must put an end to overfishing in the Baltic Sea now
Luxembourg – On October 9th, the EU’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) are due to meet in Luxembourg where ministers will decide on catch limits for the Baltic Sea in…
September 25, 2017
Brussels — If EU fisheries were healthy and well managed over the next ten years, they could contribute 4.9 billion euros annually to Europe’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) across the…
September 14, 2017
European Parliament votes in plenary session to end overfishing in the North Sea
Members of the European Parliament voted today in the plenary session on the North Sea multiannual management plan for fish species living near the sea bottom. The plan covers nearly…
