Fishing grounds are shrinking: Europêche
2025-07-04T09:14:00
Europêche, the representative body of Europe’s fishing industry, has raised serious concerns over the growing loss of traditional fishing grounds due to increasing maritime spatial pressures
Europeche warned that fisheries are being pushed aside by the rapid expansion of offshore wind farms, marine protected areas and other competing uses of marine space.
In the UK nearly half of the exclusive economic zone could become inaccessible to fishing by 2050, it says.