by Niall Duffy | Oct 1, 2020 | Europe, News
As part of the Green Deal, the European Commission has announced the goal to increase the EU’s offshore energy production twenty times to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The European Commission aims to meet this target while at the same time managing the maritime...
by Niall Duffy | Sep 30, 2020 | Europe, Featured Article, International, News
Britain has offered Brussels a three-year “transition period” on access to UK waters in a bid to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations The decision to give ground on fishing forms part of renewed efforts from the UK to find a path to a deal by the EU Council...
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...
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