by Niall Duffy | Sep 30, 2020 | Europe, International, News, Regional
Norway and the United Kingdom have today signed a new framework agreement on fisheries cooperation. It allows the parties to agree to on the exchange fishing quotas as well as mutual access to each other’s areas of fisheries jurisdiction. The agreement will...
by Niall Duffy | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, News, Regional
Greenpeace is dropping granite boulders into the North Sea, in a stunt designed to prevent fishing vessels trawling . The environmental charity says it wants to stop the practice of “bottom trawling” in the marine protected area of Dogger Bank in the UK’s North Sea....
by Niall Duffy | Sep 16, 2020 | Europe, News
French inshore fishermen are planning a major protest to coincide with the launch party of the “Scombrus”, a pelagic factory trawler belonging to the France Pélagique company which will be christened on 25th September at the Port of Concarneau. France Pélagique is a...
by Lia ní Aodha | Jul 3, 2020 | Europe
As the clock ran down on the “best endeavours” timeline set out in the Withdrawal Agreement for reaching an agreement on fisheries, the latest round of negotiations between the EU and UK aimed at securing a future partnership deal have again broken up...
by Lia ní Aodha | Jul 1, 2020 | Europe, News
Charlina Vitcheva, the new Director General of the DG for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, was welcomed yesterday by representatives of the European fishing sector, Europêche and EAPO, the latter of which the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO), the Irish...
by Lia ní Aodha | Jun 4, 2020 | Europe, News
Following earlier EU support measures to alleviate the immediate socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the fisheries sector, the European Commission has added €500 million euro to the upcoming 2021-2027 European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to...
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