News
April 13, 2011
We want green fish, EU consumers say
An overwhelming majority of European consumers – in southern Europe more than 90 percent – want to see more sustainably caught products in the fish counters, a recent WWF poll shows.
April 13, 2011
April Council goes West
The Fisheries ministers’ 14 April Council meeting will include a first discussion of a new regime for the Western Waters, a huge part of the area the Union controls.
April 12, 2011
New control rules finally in place, and working
With the rules now having been adopted for how the 2010 Control Regulation is to be enforced, getting away with fishing illegally will get much more difficult, the EU Commission says.
April 8, 2011
Sweden goes for prolonged dioxin exemption
Sweden will continue to utilise an exemption from EU rules on the dioxin content in fat fish from the Baltic Sea, the responsible minister announced.
April 7, 2011
Stalemate on subsidies in WTO talks
With only a few weeks remaining until a draft agreement is expected, the chair of the WTO negotiating group dealing with subsidies said he needed a period for “reflections”, while nations describing themselves as “friends of the fish” called for ambitious rules limiting fisheries subsidies.
April 7, 2011
Bad deal EU-Morocco
The controversial EU-Morocco fisheries deal, prolonged by the Council last February against the will of Commissioner Maria Damanaki and key MEPs, is not only questionable on human rights grounds – it’s a bad deal financially as well, according to a media report.
April 5, 2011
13th will be a magic date
EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki plans to present her CFP reform proposal to the Commission for its confirmation on 13 July, she has told MEPs.
March 31, 2011
No Libyan bluefin tuna right now, Damanaki urges
Considering the tumultuous political situation in the country, EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki calls for a temporary suspension of the bluefin tuna fishery in Libyan waters, or by vessels under Libyan flag.
March 31, 2011
Critical NGO report on eco-labels
ICSF, an organisation focusing on global small-scale fisheries, fishworkers and fishing communities, has published a new edition of its tri-annual SAMUDRA report, including critical analyses of both the MSC and the new ASC eco-labelling systems.
March 31, 2011
Brits throwing lion pooh into otter fight
Described as “very, very pungent”, English anglers say lion dung, retrieved from the London Zoo, is a very efficient deterrent against otters threatening their prize fish.