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Green to Blue Conference on Empowering Sentinels of the Sea for Sustainable Futures. The ‘GREEN TO BLUE: Upskilling for Sustainable Futures in Fisheries & Aquaculture’ Conference, held on April 10th, emerged […]
Europêche meets Member States to prepare for next legislative term. Europêche shared the frustration voiced by farmers regarding imbalanced and unworkable EU policies strangling fishing companies across the EU Europêche […]
Europêche calls for a level playing field at EU-China Blue Forum. The Chinese Ministry of natural resources and the European Commission organised last Saturday in Shenzhen (China) the second Ocean Forum under the EU-China […]
United call for rejection of unrealistic legislation that endangers farmers and fishers in the EU. As part of its Biodiversity strategy, the European Commission proposed last year its flagship Nature […]
Europêche says ICCAT another missed opportunity. Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 23rd ordinary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which just […]
EU fishing sector slams lack of expertise in developing taxonomy standards. The EU Taxonomy aims to become a tool for companies and investors to help identifying those projects and economic […]
European tuna fishers express fears over catch rules. ANABAC, OPAGAC and ORTHONGEL, which are organisations representing the European distant-water fleet fishing tropical tunas, have warned EU institutions about the impossibility […]
EU’s control regulation threatens French tuna purse seine fleet with extinction by 2026. The control rule on margin of tolerance is currently incompatible with the conditions and specificities inherent to […]
Over 80% of fish landings come from sustainable fisheries. 82.5% of the fish landed globally in 2019 came from populations at levels of biological sustainability, which represents an increase of […]
The unilaterally set Northeast Atlantic mackerel quotas by Norway and Faroe Islands are unacceptable, says Europêche. In a statement, the European representative fishing body, said: “The EU fishing industry is […]
Future Common Fisheries Policy must correct failed policies. Last week, the European Commission organised a stakeholder event to take stock of the current EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The President […]
EU fishing industry disappointed by ICCAT’s decisions. Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 27th ordinary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) following […]
Fishers warn of challenging year ahead in the Baltic European fishing representative group, Europêche, says 2022 will remain an extremely challenging year for the Baltic fishers. This follows the European […]
Concern about General Court ruling on EU-Morocco fisheries agreement. The Joint Euro-Moroccan Commission of Fishing Professionals has expressed its concern and caution regarding the ruling of the General Court of […]
WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies are now entering the final stage. After two decades of dialogue, trade ministers from 164 countries are resolved to secure an agreement ahead of the ministerial […]
New medical guidelines for European fishers. European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and Europêche have published new Guidelines on the medical examinations of fishers, paving the way for the harmonisation of […]
Fishers call for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine. European social partners in the fisheries sector, ETF and Europêche, call on the European Commission to support Member States in developing […]
Europêche slams European Parliament onboard camera vote. Europêche, the European fishing industry representative body, has heavily criticised moves for the installation of onboard monitoring and compliance cameras on fishing vessels. […]
Europêche criticises spread of damaging information by EC. Europêche, the European fishing industry representative body, has expressed concern about damaging information being spread by the EC with regards to fisheries. […]
EU fisheries control revision rules ‘a step in right direction’. Earlier this week, the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries voted on more than a thousand amendments on a new set […]
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