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August 19, 2013
Last week, a team of Oceana investigators made a 2,000-km trip by car along the coastal roads of Southern Italy and Sicily. Over five days they made detailed reconnaissance visits…
August 19, 2013
The EU Council of Fisheries Ministers is to debate next week the management of Mediterranean fisheries.Oceana condemns the fact that the EU has spent tens of millions of Euros in…
August 19, 2013
Galician businessman Antonio Vidal, indicted by the EE.UU. authorities for pirate fishing
The Galician businessman, Antonio Vidal, has been indicted by the US Administration for attempting to fraudulently enter into that country’s market some 25,000 kilos of fish protected by international conventions,…
August 19, 2013
Threatened species include sharks, rays, deep-sea fish, cod, hake, anchovy and eels. The international organisation for the defence of the seas, Oceana, has carried out a study on the state…
August 19, 2013
The detention by Norwegian patrols of two vessels flying Spanish flags, apprehended while catching Greenland halibut, has once again highlighted the wide-ranging practice of rogue fishing by companies that have…
August 19, 2013
Oceana calls for the closure of the “dirtiest” fisheries in the EU
A fleet of barely 20 fishing vessels manages to discard each year between 2,000 and 15,000 tonnes of anglerfish, generate more than 1,000 kilos of waste and “ghost nets” and…
August 19, 2013
Oceana asks the World Trade Organisation to withdraw subsidies for destructive fisheries
At the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) held in Hong Kong between 13 and 18 December, Oceana called on representatives of the countries present and the Director…
August 19, 2013
Oceana calls on Fisheries Ministers to halt the decline in Europe’s fisheries
As the annual negotiations to set fishing quotas for next year approach, Oceana urges Ministers not to dodge the difficult decisions that need to be made in order to prevent…
August 19, 2013
In view of the alarming increase in detentions of Spanish fishing vessels by the coastguards of a variety of countries due to their illegal fishing activities – on this particular…
August 19, 2013
Important decision of the Spanish Government to protect mediterranean marine habitats
The new Ministerial Order, which establishes an Integral Fisheries Management Plan for the Mediterranean Sea, includes for the first time the protection of habitats of great importance in the Mediterranean…
