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‘The Great Trawl Case’: BLOOM launches legal action against the French state to end the ecological damage caused by bottom trawling in metropolitan waters. As marine ecosystems continue to be destroyed […]
Europêche condemns slanderous campaign against trawling. Europêche strongly denounces the list of vessels published by the NGO BLOOM and the subsequent calls for supermarkets to boycott fish caught by the […]
BLOOM claims there is mercury contamination in tinned tuna. Mercury is in every tin of tuna: that’s the discovery the NGO BLOOM claim to have made when it analysed almost […]
Groundbreaking report on social-ecological transition of fisheries. “Time for a U-Turn: for a social-ecological transition of fisheries.” Faced with the environmental and social emergency and the lack of concrete scenarios […]
Three quarters of European citizens want truly protected marine areas: BLOOM – IPSOS Exclusive survey. As the European Parliament is preparing for a crucial vote on the Nature Restoration Law […]
Human rights abuses: the brutality contained in a tuna can. Persistent. Endless. Relentless. Human rights abuses are pervasive in the tuna industry. This is the conclusion of a report that […]
Statement on 27th Session of the IOTC. The 27th Session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) concluded in Balaclava, Mauritius on Friday 12 May 2023. While there were some […]
Appeal lodged by BLOOM against the European Union and France for obstruction of ocean protection. While the members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) have been gathered in Mauritius […]
EC trumps its environmental and humanitarian mandate and acts as an industrial lobbyist in Africa. While industrial tuna lobbies are under judicial investigation in France for unlawful taking of interests, […]
The future 2025 UN Ocean Conference host, France, openly fights ocean protection- Statement from BLOOM. The French Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville, has set the fishing sector […]
BLOOM launches accounts to track mega trawlers. BLOOM is launching a Twitter account called ‘Trawl Watch EU‘ with the aim of tracking down and denouncing mega trawlers with destructive practices […]
Rare victory for the ocean, threatened by France and Spain. Victories are rare for the ocean. On 5 February this year, one was secured though, wrestled out from the jaws […]
BLOOM calls on the EU to support environmental protection in the Indian Ocean. While two potentially game-changing meetings started on Monday in Mombasa (Kenya) that could determine a clear improvement […]
The pillaging of African waters: ground-breaking revelations on tuna lobbies according to BLOOM. BLOOM is continuing to dive into the obscure world of tuna fishing and reveals the shocking results […]
BLOOM attacks French government’s marine environmental sham before the Council of State. BLOOM challenges Macron’s government before the French Council of State (Conseil d’État) regarding an anti-ecological decree that undermines […]
Victory! European Parliament votes to ban demersal seining. On the 12 of July 2022, BLOOM and the coastal fishers of Northern France closely won (12 votes against 11) the vote […]
The marine environment conservation organisation, BLOOM, has published its take on the recent WTO agreement and welcomed the fisheries subsidies part of the deal. A Bloom statement said: After a […]
A historic first step for the ocean, a giant step for transparency, WTO fisheries subsidies deal. After a marathon negotiation since Sunday, June 12, and two sleepless nights of tension […]
New developments in the case of illegal subsidies for electric fishing: BLOOM requests the intervention of the Secretary-General of the European Commission. The illegal use of public funds to finance […]
Full ban on electric fishing – one cataclysm averted, but more on their way, states BLOOM in a press release. The full ban on electric fishing in Europe comes into […]
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