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

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

Publications

NGOs’ letter – Support to the UK closure of industrial sandeel fishing

5 December 2024

• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

New German legal action begins over lack of marine ecosystem protection

18 November 2024

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

Press Releases

Short-sighted decision by EU fisheries ministers pushes Baltic Sea ecosystem closer to collapse

22 October 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

New report: Fisheries for a New Era – Small-scale, low-impact fishing shows the way.

1 October 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Twelve innovative business models pioneered by small-scale and low-impact fisheries to overcome current sector crises

1 October 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use