Press Releases

EU Council of Ministers urged to take decisions to counter Baltic Sea crisis

1 August 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Report: Harmful EU subsidies fuelling ocean depletion

16 July 2020

A new report released today by Brussels-based NGO Seas at Risk highlights the financing of both harmful fishing practices and potential increased overcapacity – leading to overfishing and...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Commission takes legal action against France, Spain and Sweden to protect marine mammals

2 July 2020

The European Commission has demanded today that France, Spain and Sweden take immediate action to prevent the needless deaths of dolphins and porpoises killed every year as bycatch in fishing nets....

• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

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Lack of national political will is driving European seas to the brink

25 June 2020

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

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Deep sea remains in deep trouble

10 June 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Baltic Sea fish stocks remain in crisis – NGOs call for closures of herring and cod stocks

29 May 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Scientists call for immediate EU action to protect dolphins and porpoises following NGO request

26 May 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies: Ocean recovery targets depend on more sustainable food produ…

20 May 2020

Today, the European Commission unveiled the Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Farm to Fork Strategy, two flagship policies of the European Green Deal. These strategies are the first test of the Commission’s commitment to turning the tide on environmental degradation and biodiversity collapse. Publishing...

• Aquaculture
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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10 years to save the ocean

27 January 2020

• Blue Manifesto

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Oil companies must explain how their new “Super Pollutant” shipping fuels ever came to market

27 January 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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EU Fisheries Ministers flout law and allow overfishing to continue in 2020

18 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Zero to Superhero: Will EU fisheries ministers finally end overfishing this week?

16 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Ocean avengers deliver ultimatum to EU Prime Ministers: end overfishing

12 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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European Green Deal needs more concrete action on seas and ocean

11 December 2019

• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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COP25: Call for governments to end overfishing to counter climate crisis

6 December 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Commission misses opportunity to halt dolphin and porpoise deaths this winter

5 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Shipping climate talks in the slow lane over speed reduction measures

15 November 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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EMFF – Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament puts the ocean at further risk

12 November 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use