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Fishermen blown away by offshore wind energy escalation plans
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...
UK Offers EU Fleet 3 Years More Access To Fishing Grounds
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...
Norway and the United Kingdom agree on fisheries cooperation
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 enter into...
Fishermen’s lives placed in danger by Greenpeace stunt
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...
Major Protest Planned For New Factory Trawler Launch
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...
No convergence in latest Brexit talks
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 without...
EU fishing reps meet with new Director General of DG MARE
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 South...
EU tops up fisheries fund by €500 million as part of recovery plan
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...
Biodiversity Strategy ignores management achievements
Launched yesterday, May 20th by the Commission, the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy 2030 ignores fisheries management achievements, is discriminatory and undermines the viability of the fishing sector, says European fishing body Europêche. On account of this, the fishing...
Not all Doom and Gloom: Overfishing in the EU at an all-time low
Good news for fish in the recently published European Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) annual report on the performance of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which indicates pressure on stocks in the Northeast Atlantic dropped...
Keep supply chains open? SFF say French stance on imports ‘regrettable’
Over the past month, the French media has reported fishermen in Lorient complaining about the impact imports, including imports from Ireland, are having on local markets. According to the fishermen, fish is being imported into France at much lower prices than local...
Council approves latest round of coronavirus supports for fisheries
The European Council, yesterday (April 14), agreed a position on the Commission’s recent proposal (April 2) to help address the negative impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the fisheries and aquaculture sectors via amendments to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund...
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