by Bibiana | Oct 1, 2025 | News
Yesterday, the European Commission hosted the Our Baltic Ministerial Conference in Stockholm to discuss the future of the Baltic Sea, with the participation of ministers from the Baltic region and the EU Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis. This event...
by Bibiana | Jun 8, 2023 | News
As part of its Biodiversity strategy, the European Commission proposed last year its flagship Nature Restoration Law which calls for new binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems. The Regulation is bound to have huge and devastating consequences for farming and...
by Bibiana | Nov 23, 2021 | News
During the plenary session of the European social dialogue committee for sea fisheries held last week, ETF and Europêche adopted a joint resolution establishing benchmark principles aimed at better regulating the proliferation of sustainability labels certifying...
by Bibiana | Oct 12, 2021 | News
Today, after long hours of discussion in Luxembourg, EU Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on the catch limits for 2022 for the ten main commercial stocks in the Baltic Sea. Despite the huge quota cuts in the last years for key species such as cod and herring in...
by Bibiana | May 20, 2021 | News
European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and Europêche have published new Guidelines on the medical examinations of fishers, paving the way for the harmonisation of standards for health and fitness checks across Europe and worldwide. Sea fishing is a remote...