CFP

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

European fishers are ‘astonished’ at France’s unilateral decision to close the Bay of Biscay to fishing for a month, and are urging the European Commission to act

25th January 2024

Fishers slam Bay of Biscay closure

25th January 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Parliament and Commission are at odds over plans to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas.

19th January 2024

MEPs slam Brussels bottom trawler ban

19th January 2024

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Although the framework for promoting the sustainable development of aquaculture in EU member states has improved, the substantially increased funding has not yielded tangible results. In fact, production seems to be at…

27th November 2023

European Court of Auditors: EU aquaculture ‘stagnating’

27th November 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

While the volume of fish and shellfish caught by the Scottish fishing fleet last year fell 2% compared with 2021 to around 429,000 tonnes, the value of these landings increased 4% to…

27th September 2023

Scottish catch value bounces back (but not to pre-Covid levels)

27th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Ireland’s government has been urged to implement cross-departmental action that enables the fishing industry to transition to low impact, low emissions fisheries that in turn deliver on commitments to halt biodiversity loss…

11th May 2023

Fisheries action = climate action, Irish leaders told

11th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

One month after the publication of the European Commission’s ‘Action Plan: Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries’, fishing industry leaders and EU member state representatives have met in…

22nd March 2023

EU stakeholders discuss future of bottom trawling

22nd March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission’s new Action Plan for EU fisheries and aquaculture has been praised the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) for acknowledging the social dimension of fisheries and the role they play…

23rd February 2023

ETF: EU plan fails workers

23rd February 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A package of measures to improve the sustainability and resilience of the EU’s fisheries and aquaculture sectors has been published by the European Commission.

21st February 2023

New EU plan launched

21st February 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU social partners – the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and EU fishermen’s representative body Europêche – have called on the European Commission to base its decisions impacting the fisheries sector only after properly…

6th December 2022

‘Consider fishers’, EC urged

6th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The lack of flexibility and the complexity of the EU’s current Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) are preventing the fishing sector from adapting to the challenges to come, the European Association of Fish…

15th June 2022

Brussels told CFP is too ‘inflexible’

15th June 2022