by Bibiana | Mar 7, 2023 | News
After an exhausting 40-hour session capping two weeks of negotiations at the UN headquarters in New York, the United Nations (UN) member states agreed to a landmark international Treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine Biological diversity of areas...
by Bibiana | Feb 21, 2023 | News
Failed policies such as the landing obligation will remain untouched. The sector warns that the CFP is being undermined by environmental policies. The EU needs to use the right tool for every job. Reformed a decade ago, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been...
by Bibiana | Feb 9, 2023 | News
Since December 2017, the international community is elaborating an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine Biological diversity of areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), under the auspices of United Nations (UN)....
by Bibiana | Feb 6, 2023 | News
Purse seine fishery’s existence in the Indian Ocean is at stake, after an inapplicable decision against drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) was imposed by vote in the IOTC. Coastal developing states’ economies are severely threatened. During the Special Session...
by Bibiana | Feb 2, 2023 | News
Globally, an estimated 27.6 million people are in forced labour, in many industries and in every continent. In order to tackle this problem, the Commission has presented a Regulation to prohibit products manufactured in violation of human and workers’ rights on...
by Bibiana | Feb 1, 2023 | News
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fishing are down by 48 % compared to ‘90s levels. • Europêche warns about the consequences for consumers of highly influential environmental advocacy groups becoming radically more fact-selective. © Picture: Padmos, the MDV1 vessel....
