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Press Releases
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 6, 2017
Global insurers unite to cut financial lifeline to pirate fishing
St. Julian’s, Malta—Leading insurers from around the world have committed to take action on pirate fishing, an unlawful practice that costs the global economy tens of billions of dollars in…
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 26, 2017
EU countries authorized their vessels to fish unlawfully in African waters
Oceana today released a new report highlighting unlawful fishing* activities, authorized by four European countries, in the waters of The Gambia and Equatorial Guinea between April 2012 and August 2015….
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 21, 2017
Alexandra Cousteau calls for more protected areas to stop ocean decline
Alexandra Cousteau, senior advisor to Oceana and granddaughter of renown oceanographer Jaques Costeau, has made an urgent call for an end to the degradation of oceans before the situation becomes…
September 19, 2017
The Spanish National Court has ordered the payment of 700,000 Euros to a Chinese company in compensation for a cargo of illegally-caught Patagonian toothfish that was seized in Vietnam last…
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…
