Press Releases

Benefits quickly outweigh costs of banning bottom trawling from Marine Protected Areas

12 May 2021

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

Press Releases

EU Scientific body confirms stronger bycatch measures are needed to protect Bay of Biscay common dolphins and Baltic Proper harbour porpoises

15 April 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

Remote Electronic Monitoring – A tool to save dolphins (infographic)

15 March 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

#KeepItInTheSeabed! No to Deep Sea mining GIFs

15 March 2021

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Two steps forward, one giant step back: European Parliament votes for modern and transparent fisheries, but opens grave loophole

11 March 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Fisheries Committee vote creates loopholes that put sustainability and legality of EU seafood at risk

5 February 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

Press Briefing: Saving Europe’s biodiversity starts in the ocean

14 January 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Pending outcome in Brexit deal risks progress towards ending overfishing in the North-East Atlantic

17 December 2020

Early this morning European Fisheries Ministers concluded negotiations on an atypical December AGRIFISH Council meeting, with the pending outcome of Brexit impacting this year´s agenda. Of the fishing quotas...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

AGRIFISH Briefing: How EU decisions on fishing quotas will set the tone for 2021

15 December 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

The negotiated EMFF budget runs counter to EU biodiversity strategy and WTO negotiations

4 December 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Thousands of dolphin deaths likely in Spain and France as EU fails to act

1 December 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Marine environment: European Court of Auditors’ analysis is urgent call to action

26 November 2020

• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

Multimedia

5 dolphin facts

24 November 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

Time is running out to save the dolphins

10 November 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

European Commission must stop France and Spain from killing thousands of dolphins, warn NGOs

28 October 2020

NGOs warn that thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay face horrific deaths in fishing nets this winter if the EU Commission does not step in with...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

Bycatch of dolphins in Bay of Biscay: Commissioner Sinkevičius commits to addressing the problem

28 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Commission shows some progress towards ending overfishing in the North-East Atlantic, but EU-UK negotiations will be the litmus test

27 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

France fails to prevent thousands of dolphin deaths, challenging law and science

23 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use