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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

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU negotiators have reached agreements with Northeast Atlantic coastal states, as well as with the UK and Norway on the shared management of key stocks in 2023, the European Commission has confirmed.

15th December 2022

NEA 2023 catch deal

15th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Trilateral fisheries negotiations between the United Kingdom, Norway and EU have concluded with the UK fleet securing catch limits worth £202 million next year. This value represents a £33 million increase from 2022.

12th December 2022

UK nets more quotas

12th December 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Portugal and Slovenia will receive millions in funding from the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund 2021-2027.

6th December 2022

Portugal, Slovenia funding

6th December 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Europe’s mounting energy crisis has put the region’s fish farmers at risk.

12th October 2022

Anxious times

12th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Norway and the EU have reached a new political understanding with relation to the fisheries in the Northeast Arctic, in ICES subareas 1 and 2, the European Commission has confirmed.

2nd May 2022

EU, Norway agreement

2nd May 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Union has officially become a member of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG Mare) has confirmed.

4th April 2022

EU joins NPFC

4th April 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US President Joe Biden has announced that in response to the invasion of Ukraine, the United States’ trade status with Russia has been significantly downgraded and that imports of Russian seafood and…

14th March 2022

Biden bans Russian seafood

14th March 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Union and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement on the fishing opportunities for 2022, covering all shared and jointly-managed fisheries resources in UK and EU waters.

22nd December 2021

EU, UK agree on 2022 fishing opportunities

22nd December 2021