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Cork hosts launch of major initiative to protect waters in Atlantic and Arctic by 2030. President Michael D. Higgins was among the 160 guests at an event held in Cork […]
New Zealand call for a moratorium on destructive deep-sea mining in international waters. Deep Sea Conservation Coalition reaction. Just days before the International Seabed Authority meets in Jamaica, seeking to […]
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 […]
Project to assess impact of offshore wind farms on marine ecosystem. Bangor University scientists are leading the research for the new £2m ECOWind-ACCELERATE project. Bangor University scientists are leading the […]
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 […]
Ministers urged to act now to protect vulnerable fish stocks. Many planned offshore windfarms could wreak havoc with key spawning and nursery grounds for important fish stocks, the industry warned […]
Oceana to campaign against UK trawling. Oceana recently announced that it is expanding their campaigns in the United Kingdom, thanks to the support of the Becht Family Charitable Trust. A statement on […]
EU joins North Pacific Fisheries Commission. The European Union (EU) became officially member of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC) on 23 March 2022. The NPFC is a Regional Fisheries Management Organisation […]
Northern Ireland pledge to protect blue carbon habitats. Northern Ireland Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots MLA has said that we must all work together to protect and […]
Oceana to step up campaigns in the UK. Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation organisation, is expanding its campaigns to protect and restore waters in the United Kingdom (UK). More […]
United Nations Global Compact awards Satlink’s technology for its contribution to ocean protection. Satlink’s selective smart buoy is recognised as the Best Project to contribute to SDG 14 at the […]
Tipping point in Humboldt Current off Peru leads to species shift. Researchers have reconstructed the link between ocean warming and shift to smaller fish species using sediment samples from the […]
Concrete steps taken against ghost nets in Mediterranean and Black Sea. While the international community zeroed in on the critical importance of the environment for our future at the COP26, […]
Fish and the ocean play a crucial role in regulating our climate and should not be consigned to COP26 sidelines. The following article is by scientists, Emma Cavan, Erica M. […]
EC launches consultation on action plan for fisheries. The European Commission has launched a targeted consultation to ask stakeholders for their involvement in shaping the upcoming Action plan to conserve fisheries resources and […]
EC publishes report on implementation of technical measures. The European Commission has published the first report on the implementation of the Technical Measures Regulation (TMR), which sets out the conservation measures […]
Remarkable resilience of sea life in the aftermath of mass extinctions revealed in new research. Pioneering research has shown marine ecosystems can start working again, providing important functions for humans, […]
Legal challenge over alleged Dutch misreporting of fish catches. ClientEarth and the small-scale fishers’ platform Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) have just launched a legal challenge against the Dutch authorities for […]
MPAs – a policy tool with only winners. Every year, the European Commission organises a seminar on fisheries science. The event attracts dozens of stakeholders from different areas to discuss […]
NZ project extends ocean acidification monitoring network. A joint National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and Department of Conservation (DOC) project is extending New Zealand’s ocean acidification monitoring […]
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