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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Commission has published two staff working documents to support EU Member States in facilitating the sustainable growth of aquaculture.

30th April 2024

Commission shares best practice aquaculture guidance

30th April 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Despite agreements by coastal states to follow the scientific advice in 2024, the absence of quota sharing arrangements means that the future sustainability of fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic is still…

20th November 2023

The Northeast Atlantic quota sharing saga continues

20th November 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Considering the clear decline of Europe’s eel population, in 2007 the Council of the European Union adopted a regulation establishing measures for stock recovery with the requirement for each member state to…

3rd November 2023

Ten years of eel restocking in France

3rd November 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Delegations of the European Union, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Norway and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement on the management measures for mackerel, blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring in the…

25th October 2023

Northeast Atlantic mackerel, blue whiting and herring quotas set

25th October 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The focus of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) was sustainable management of key fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic.

26th September 2023

Sustainable measures set for North-West Atlantic fisheries

26th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission is seeking to pull Baltic Sea fisheries out of their ’dire situation’ with the announcement of its first TACS and quotas for 2024.

29th August 2023

Commission looks to pull Baltic fisheries out of ‘dire’ straits

29th August 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Ocean conservation advocacy organisation Oceana has called on the European Union to require full transparency for all seafood sold on the market, including processed and imported products. It wants consumers to be able…

24th April 2023

Full transparency urged for EU seafood

24th April 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

As well as being the world’s biggest seafood market, the European Union is also one of its leading processing regions, with a large proportion of an estimated 10.1 million tonnes of raw…

23rd March 2023

‘Give us fish’

23rd March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The EU and Norway have signed three bilateral agreements including quota setting in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat, the exchanges of quotas between the two parties, and reciprocal access to waters for fishers. 

20th March 2023

EU, Norway agree new fisheries deals

20th March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UK fishing industry is to benefit from an additional 140,000 tonnes of fishing opportunities in 2023 worth £282 million.

22nd December 2022

£282m UK fishing deal

22nd December 2022