Report | August 30, 2021
Recommendations to the EU on the setting of fishing opportunities for 2022
NGO signatories of this document wish to present our recommendations on the setting of fishing opportunities for 2022. Our intent is to assist the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the Member States in making decisions on fishing opportunities that finally end overfishing, significantly contribute to restoring and/or maintaining all fish stocks above healthy levels and safeguard marine ecosystem functions.
Missed 2020 deadline and sluggish CFP implementation
Overfishing and destructive fishing practices have been the main cause of marine biodiversity loss for the last 40 years and also critically undermine the resilience of fish, crustaceans, corals, seabirds, marine mammals, and other wildlife to the impacts of climate change, as well as undermining their capacity to mitigate climate change.1 Despite the increase in fleet profitability and the reduction in overfishing brought about by the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the last decade, the EU still failed to fulfil its legal obligation to end overfishing in all its waters and missed the deadline to harvest all stocks sustainably by 2020.
Click here to read our open letter to Comissioner Sinkevi?ius.

