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European Fisheries Control Agency adopts annual report. The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) Administrative Board recently adopted the agency’s Annual Report for 2019. The agency supported the Member States and […]
EC concern over bycatches of dolphins. EC Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, has written to the Fisheries and Environment Ministers of 22 European Union Member States about the issue of incidental catches […]
Drones being used in European fishery surveillance. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has been closely cooperating with the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) to support enhanced fisheries control by […]
Ferry company achieves MSC and ASC certification. ForSea is the first shipping company in Sweden and Denmark to be MSC and ASC certified and the first shipping company in the […]
Europêche meets new EU Fish Commissioner. The European fishing industry represented by Europêche has met with Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. The newly elected Commissioner listened and […]
Fish without pollutants protect against type 2 diabetes. If the fatty fish we eat were free of environmental pollutants, it would reduce our risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, […]
Swedish royals to visit Marine Institute. The Marine Institute will welcome King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden to the Marine Institute headquarters in Oranmore on Friday 24th […]
Mep Linnéa Engström takes on dream job to tackle overfishing. Linnéa Engström steps down from her seat as a Member of the European Parliament to become the Program Director for […]
World record in filleting of small fish. The Swedish Fish Processing Machine manufacturer – SEAC AB – located on the Royal summer Island of Öland, Sweden (in the Baltic Sea) […]
Climate change shifting fisheries productivity. Fish provide a vital source of protein for over half the world’s population, with over 56 million people employed by or subsisting on fisheries. But […]
EurofleetsPlus kick off meeting at Marine Institute. The EU H2020 EurofleetsPlus Kick-off meeting held at the Marine Institute, Galway (5th – 7th March 2019) announced details of the project that […]
Western Mediterranean fisheries plan agreed. The European Parliament and the Council have reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposal establishing a multi-annual plan for fish stocks in the western Mediterranean […]
EC welcomes new multi annual fisheries plan. The European Commission has welcomed the agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on a multi-annual plan for fisheries in the […]
EU lacks ambition in setting fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea, says Europêche. EU Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2018 for the ten stocks in the […]
EU projects announced to restore oceans. The European Commission has announced 18 new projects which will receive over €106 million to contribute to the EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’. […]
The European bottom fishing fleet represented by EBFA is calling for a Europe wide protest against the EU policies that are putting the future of the sector at stake. The […]
Tackling mercury pollution in marine sediments MER-CLUB is an ambitious scientific project which aims to tackle the issue of mercury pollution in marine sediments. Mercury pollution is a global problem with […]
The EU and Norway signed three bilateral agreements including quota setting in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat, the exchanges of quotas between the two parties, and reciprocal access to waters […]
EU announces 20 new projects to restore oceans. 20 multinational projects will receive over €117 million to contribute to the objectives of the EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and waters’: […]
Georg Haney has been hired as environmental manager at Hampidjan, but he has worked in Hafró’s fishing gear research for the past decade. Georg is of German descent, from the […]
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