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

General News

Making ocean and climate the EU’s first priority

16 October 2019

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

Press Releases

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

Publications

Moving away from single-use

10 October 2019

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

Press Releases

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

Press Releases

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

Press Releases

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

30 August 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Litmus test for the European Commission: follow scientific advice or break the commitment to end overfishing?

23 August 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

A call to G7 leaders to step up ocean conservation efforts

21 August 2019

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

Member's News

Small, numerous and persistent: microplastics and their various sources

17 July 2019

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

General News

Deep sea mining: not needed for the future we want

16 July 2019

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Member's News

The deep sea: we should not let the richest place in species on earth become a new mining frontier.

16 July 2019

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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

10 July 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

Publications

Complaint against the breach of species protection obligations under Article 12 of the Habitats Directive in relation to cetaceans

10 July 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Save Our Seas petition – only six months left to make a difference

7 July 2019

• Clean ocean
• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

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

28 June 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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

24 June 2019

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

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

19 June 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping