General News

Revised EU Control Regulation is finally law! What does it mean for fish populations and the incidental catches of sensitive species?

4 December 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use

Publications

Open letter to UN bodies and leaders to involve small-scale fishers and local communities in environmental related decisions.

24 November 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

EU leaders reach deal to #RestoreOcean! EU Nature Restoration Law gets greenlight

15 November 2023

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

Publications

Joint call to the Commission to not backtrack on the work on food systems

25 October 2023

• Aquaculture
• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

EU ministers set quotas for Baltic herring that defy fisheries laws 

24 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Fisheries ministers poised to breach EU law and exacerbate Baltic ecosystem crisis, NGOs warn 

19 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Three actions the EU must take for the ocean and the people depending on it

18 October 2023

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean governance
• Ocean use

Publications

Ocean of Change: a joint Manifesto for the 2024 European Elections

18 October 2023

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

Ending overfishing to counter climate change

10 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

From the atmosphere to the depths: marine life is an ally against climate change

10 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

Seas At Risk and Oceana urge Spain to create 50 marine sanctuaries to safeguard and restore key ecosystems

10 October 2023

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

Multimedia

Video: By taking important quantities of sea life out of the ocean, bottom trawling accelerates climate c…

5 October 2023

Each living organism in the ocean has its specific role in the carbon cycle. Large sea creatures like whales store a great amount of carbon; schools of small fish...

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use

Publications

NGO letter calling for the protection and restoration of the European eel in the Mediterranean

5 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

Explainer: Making restoration & fisheries go hand in hand

2 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

Time has come for Member States to phase-out bottom trawling and truly protect marine sensitive species

28 September 2023

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

Press Releases

EU Nature Restoration Law will lack teeth if it fails to address fisheries impacts

28 September 2023

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

Publications

Recommendations to the EU on the setting of fishing opportunities for 2024

19 September 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

Open letter: call for publication of updated animal welfare legislative proposal within current political term.

13 September 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use