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 has approved under EU state aid rules a Portuguese tonnage tax scheme which, together with a scheme to support seafarers, will encourage ship...
A call by the shipping industry [1] for governments to compromise on ambition ahead of key UN discussions to reduce maritime emissions actually abandons the goals...
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...
The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) is calling for the European Commission to recognise the importance of the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) in the...
The Commission has proposed a multi-annual plan for fish stocks in the western Mediterranean Sea. The proposal covers demersal fish stocks, i.e. fish that live and...