Oceana is sending out an SOS to urge national governments to make pirate fishing a punishable environmental crime. Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing – also...
The European Commission has published a revision of the European fisheries Control Regulation, which aim is to ensure compliance with rules of the Common Fisheries Policy...
A new EU multiannual plan to prevent overfishing of demersal species and thus offer North Sea fishing communities more security was approved by MEPs on Tuesday...
On 30 May, the European Parliament adopted in its final vote the North Sea Multi-Annual Plan (NSMAP). The plan covers nearly one-third of all fish catches...
As the Council of EU Environment Ministers meeting opened yesterday (10 April) in Sofia, 172,120 signatures from EU citizens calling for the EU to protect our...
The European Commission’s proposal for a multi-annual fisheries plan for western waters is a missed opportunity to preserve Atlantic ecosystems, according to Oceana. The plan, released...
For more than 80 years a trawling ban has been in place in the Sound, a strait separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden). Still, the ban is not...