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EC welcomes provisional agreement on new technical conservation measures. The European Parliament and the Council agreed on the Commission’s proposal for decentralised and simplified technical rules, giving fishermen a stronger say in deciding on the ...
EC adopts contingency proposals to mitigate no-deal Brexit on EU fisheries – Given the continued uncertainty in the UK surrounding the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, the European Commission has adopted two legislative proposals to ...
Killybegs fishers call for Brexit measures. As the UK meanders chaotically out of the EU, the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation has called for a suite of mitigation measures for fisheries to be spelled out clearly by ...
A pragmatic approach on Brexit needed, say European fishers, calling on both the EU and UK to avoid at all costs a no deal Brexit. A statement by the European Fisheries Alliance (EUFA) on last ...
EC publishes info guide on IUU fishing in a simple question and answer fact sheet, following the European Commission announcing this week that Thailand has successfully addressed the shortcomings in its fisheries legal and administrative ...
EU coastal and maritime tourism strategy – The Commission’s “European Strategy for more Growth and Jobs in Coastal and Maritime Tourism” is almost five years old. Adopted in February 2014, the strategy set a number ...
Europeche rejects EU Shark Trade Restrictions – The European fishing industry represented by Europêche opposes the inclusion of shortfin mako shark in Appendix II of CITES which would severely curtail the international trade of the ...
EU Norway Fisheries Arrangements Agreed for 2019 – The EU and Norway have signed three fisheries arrangements for 2019 in the framework of the largest fishing agreement in the north of Europe. Two bilateral arrangements ...
Following this week’s Fisheries Council in Brussels, the EC welcomes rise in stocks being fished sustainably A press statement said: “Next year the number of fish stocks managed at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) levels will rise to 59, and there will ...
Europêche – landing obligation overshadows fish agreement. Europêche has welcomed some elements of the deal reached at this week’s European Fish Council in Brussels but warns that the ill-conceived landing obligation is likely to create ...
The EU Landing Obligation – Contingency Planning for Chokes Must Begin Now says the NFFO. Despite a four-year phase-in, it seems highly unlikely that the Council of Ministers, December council which begins today, 17th December, will ...
Oceana Accuses Italian Fishing Industry of Influencing EU vote – Environmental NGO Oceana says it is has seen information that the Italian fishing industry within EC Advisory body MedAC used its power to influence European ...
Western Med countries adopt plan for sustainable blue economy. Ministers of the Western Mediterranean countries, at the presence of the European Commission and the Union for the Mediterranean, have adopted a declaration to strengthen maritime ...
Workshop on digital tools for small scale fisheries. Representatives of the European Commission (DG MARE), EU Member States, European Parliament, Council of the EU, Advisory Councils and other EU stakeholders will take part in the ...
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 Western waters. The agreement will ...
EC state aid for small scale fisheries. At the annual conference of the outermost regions in Gran Canaria, EC President Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the nine territories in such regions of the EU can now ...
Brexit spat over fishing ‘sell-out’. A spat between the SNP and Conservatives over what the proposed Brexit deal means for Scottish fishing shows no sign of going away. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scottish ...
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