by Bibiana | Feb 21, 2023 | News
Failed policies such as the landing obligation will remain untouched. The sector warns that the CFP is being undermined by environmental policies. The EU needs to use the right tool for every job. Reformed a decade ago, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been...
by Bibiana | Oct 12, 2021 | News
Today, after long hours of discussion in Luxembourg, EU Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on the catch limits for 2022 for the ten main commercial stocks in the Baltic Sea. Despite the huge quota cuts in the last years for key species such as cod and herring in...
by Bibiana | Oct 29, 2020 | News
Last year the EU adopted a Multiannual Management Plan (MAP) of demersal fisheries in the Western Mediterranean that regulates the fleets, mainly trawlers, from Italy, France and Spain. Back then, the sector criticised the introduction of severe spatial-seasonal trawl...
by Bibiana | May 20, 2020 | News
The European Commission has unveiled today its proposal for an EU Biodiversity strategy calling for urgent action to protect nature in the EU and worldwide. The strategy claims to set up a full transformative plan towards an EU environmentally-friendly food production...
by Bibiana | May 7, 2020 | News
The European Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) annual report[1] on the performance of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) brings excellent news for another year on the good progress on the state of EU fish stocks. The scientific report...
