Baltic Sea Fish Stocks Remain in Crisis – NGOs Call for Closures of Herring and Cod stocks
Brussels, 29 May 2020:- Responding to today’s publication of annual scientific advice for EU fishing limits for…
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109 Organizations Around the Globe Urge World Leaders to Reach a WTO Deal to Help Save Our Ocean
This June, governments around the world must fulfil their commitment to curb the public money that supports overfishing and degrades our ocean. After nearly two decades of…
Continue readingCall to action for the EU countries: 3 steps to restore our seas by 2020
Despite the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008), most EU countries are a long way off in achieving their targets to protect and restore our seas to healthy…
Continue readingCCB welcomes EU Commission proposal to ban fishing for eel in the Baltic Sea
The European Eel is a critically endangered fish species with a dramatic stock size decline the past 30 years. Conservation efforts have so far failed to deliver and scientific…
Continue readingCCB joins over 100 organisations in call to uphold ban on subsidies for fishing vessels
CCB and over 100 organisations across the EU ask all members of European parliament endorse the Fisheries Committee’s vote from March this year and express support for the 2014…
Continue readingThe New Baltic Fisheries Management plan is now EU Law
On July 20th, the new fisheries management plan for sprat, herring and cod became active EU law and thereby removed the old cod plan and amending the existing Technical…
Continue readingSubsidies fuelling overfishing must end
Subsidies directed towards the fishing sector is one of the key problem areas regarding the overfishing and overcapacity in Europe’s fishing fleet. The European Fisheries Fund…
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