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© OCEANA/ Maxime Baldweyns Photos and video available here To mark World Fisheries Day, environmental NGOs created a visual reminder of how large and plentiful fish once were, outside the Council meeting of EU agriculture and fisheries ministers. NGOs urged the ministers and the Commissioner responsible for ocean and fisheries to return EU fish populations […]

European fisheries ministers, gathered in Brussels to set fishing limits for fish populations in EU seas for 2022, on 14 December decided to continue overfishing of over one third of stocks, in disregard for both science and EU law. [1] Ahead of this week’s EU AGRIFISH Council meeting, several countries - Spain, Portugal and France in particular - proudly […]

EU Reporter Published 2 months ago Photo credit: Agencja Fotograficzna Caro/Alamy Stock Photo As officials from the EU, Norway and the UK meet virtually this week to negotiate fishing limits for shared fish populations in 2021, the Our Fish campaign today called on all three parties to make 2021 the year they collectively fish within scientific advice.   A recent analysis of joint EU, Norwegian and UK fishing practices, published by Our Fish, demonstrates how for the last 20 years, Norway an...