General News

Ten examples from EU Member States pioneering fair and eco-friendly allocation of fishing opportunities

19 February 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

Report: Allocating fishing opportunities with environmental, social, and economic criteria in mind

19 February 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

The Ups and Downs of Parliament’s Fisheries Verdict

18 January 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

European Parliament at risk of backpedaling on marine protection ambition

11 January 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Norway’s deep-sea mining approval spurs global outcry 

10 January 2024

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Sustainable fisheries is still utopia, amid climate breakdown and depleted fish populations

12 December 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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

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

Portuguese Parliament approves plans to hit pause on deep-sea mining

17 October 2023

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

General News

Ending overfishing to counter climate change

10 October 2023

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

200 civil society organisations urge the EU to adopt a strong Nature Restoration Law

3 October 2023

• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• 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