Press Releases

European Commission does too little too late to safeguard North- East Atlantic fish stocks

28 October 2019

European NGOs ClientEarth, Sciaena, Seas At Risk, The Fisheries Secretariat, and Our Fish react to this year’s proposal from the European Commission for 2020 fishing quotas in the North-East...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Fisheries Ministers Ignore EU Law and Nature’s Limits for Baltic Sea

14 October 2019

Following news that the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) has today set five out of ten fishing limits for fish caught in the Baltic Sea, far above the...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Ocean conservation is climate action

25 September 2019

The Special Report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere, released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes for grim reading. The ocean is the life-support system for...

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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Over 50 NGOs call on EU leaders to protect ocean as climate action

25 September 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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Lost opportunity: European Commission fails to propose an end to overfishing in the Baltic by 2020

30 August 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Groups call on the European Commission to take action over huge number of cetacean deaths

10 July 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

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Drastic cut for North Sea Cod: Scientific advice must shock EU fisheries ministers in action

28 June 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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NGOs challenge “incomprehensible” proposal to allow illegal fishing activities in North Sea nature reserve

24 June 2019

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

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Climate Crisis: Call for Immediate Ban on Heavy Fuel Oil Use by Arctic Shipping

19 June 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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European Commission overestimates numbers of fish stocks at sustainable levels

13 June 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Fisheries and environmental organisations issue joint call for moratorium on deep-sea mining

28 May 2019

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

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IMO responds to Climate Emergency with two more weeks of procedural wrangling

17 May 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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The World Trade Organization has a window of opportunity to fight harmful fisheries subsidies – is Europe up to the challenge?

17 May 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Environmental groups call for international moratorium on ship scrubbers following cruise giant Carnival’s criminal revelations

14 May 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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NGOs raise red flag: end overfishing now or miss legal deadline!

10 April 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EMFF: Ticking time-bomb for the ocean

4 April 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Future EMFF: a 15-year backward step

7 March 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Closing the single-use plastic pollution tap requires ambitious targets from national governments

25 February 2019

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution