Press Releases

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

Press Releases

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

General News

Member States stalling on implementation of European plastic law while plastic littering surges

1 July 2020

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

Press Releases

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

25 June 2020

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Publications

Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2021

10 June 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Deep sea remains in deep trouble

10 June 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Will World Ocean Day 2020 mark a blue recovery?

8 June 2020

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

Joint statement – we are all inextricably connected with each other and the natural world

8 June 2020

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

RISE UP for the ocean – a global blue call to action

7 June 2020

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Publications

RISE UP – a blue call to action

7 June 2020

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

General News

A green and blue recovery for EU seas

5 June 2020

• Clean ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean governance
• Ocean use

Publications

Turning the Tide on EU Seas with a Green Recovery

5 June 2020

• Clean ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Ocean use

Publications

Ocean action! conference report

5 June 2020

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

Looking back on Ocean Action! conference

4 June 2020

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

European Commission joins calls for moratorium on deep-sea mining

4 June 2020

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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

29 May 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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

26 May 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Setting the right safety net: A framework for fisheries support policies in response to Covid-19

26 May 2020

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use