Press Releases

EU Ocean Week: New assessment finds Europe not on track to achieve a healthy ocean by 2030

2 days ago

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

We Are The Whale

2 days ago

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance

General News

Over 50 NGOs urge EU to put ocean health at the heart of next long-term budget

27 February 2026

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean governance

Publications

Ocean Act Position Paper Summary

9 February 2026

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Ocean governance

Publications

Ocean Act position paper: Europe’s Ocean Regulation

9 February 2026

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Ocean governance
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

Ocean Week 2025

22 September 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution

Press Releases

NGOs welcome Danish ban of bottom trawling in 19% of its marine waters 

2 July 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

UNOC: EU’s environmental reputation in tatters as it fails marine protected areas on international stage

13 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

‘Protect the ocean, protect life!’: Ocean advocates make global call for action before UN Ocean Conference

7 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance

Press Releases

EU Ocean Pact Response: “Tentative steps forward but critical gaps must be addressed to protect our ocean”

5 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance

Press Releases

UNOC countdown: Fresh legal challenge over untackled bottom-trawling in EU Marine Protected Areas

2 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

NGOs sign open letter to college of commissioners: The EU Must Show Leadership at UNOC3 through an Ambitious European Ocean Pact

22 May 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance

Events

Seas At Risk @ UNOC-3

13 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Renewable energy at sea
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

EU Ocean Pact must confront destructive activities for the ocean, NGOs warn 

12 May 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance

Press Releases

NGOs join forces to demand a ban on destructive fishing in protected areas, and reveal bottom trawling’s economic toll

25 March 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

As EU Ocean Days conclude, civil society, fishers, and the scientific community call on Commissioner Kadis to affirm that bottom trawling has no place in marine protected areas

10 March 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

Report uncovers serious failure to protect EU Seas – NGOs call for full use of Marine Directive

6 March 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance

Press Releases

The ocean must not be the loser in the EU’s competitiveness race

29 January 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping