Press Releases

Fisheries Ministers Risk Breaking EU Law, Jeopardising Baltic Sea Recovery

28 October 2025

• Low impact fisheries

General News

Guide to protecting sensitive marine species from bycatch in the EU

7 October 2025

• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

NGOs launch guide to successfully address bycatch of sensitive species in the EU and call for bolder action

7 October 2025

• Low impact fisheries

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

NGOs to EU decision makers: Commit to a Genuine Baltic Sea Recovery Plan

28 May 2025

• Low impact fisheries

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

“End of Fish Day” in the EU: a wake-up call for sustainable seafood consumption

16 May 2025

• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

Over a quarter of a million Europeans urge the EU to end bottom trawling in marine protected areas

13 May 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

EU reels in Finland for breaching fishing rules 

6 May 2025

• Low impact fisheries

Publications

Study: Power structures shaping EU fisheries. How the political economy favours industrial over small scale, low impact fishing

15 April 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

New study reveals that EU fisheries policy favours big industry, leaving small-scale fishers adrift

15 April 2025

• Low impact fisheries

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

Member's News

End-of-fish day: Germany’s seafood consumption already exceeds domestic supply on 8th of March

7 March 2025

• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

Ocean advocates launch ‘Protect Our Catch’, a European campaign, urging the EU to end destructive fishing such as bottom trawling in marine protected areas

5 February 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

Fisheries Council: Ministers still ignore science pushing some fish populations on the brink of collapse

11 December 2024

• Low impact fisheries