The Control Regulation, still subject to last-minute revisions, and the 2010 Baltic catch quotas will top the Fisheries agenda as EU ministers gather for their October 19-20 Council meeting in Luxembourg. For the first time the ministers, and their advisors, carry with them background documents provided in a new project recently launched by FISH and … Continued
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2009 was shared by two American political scientists, rather than economists, one of whom was not only the first woman winner in the 41-year history of that Nobel Prize family “step-brother”, but also a student of fishing communities. Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University, who shared the … Continued
Sweden has been named responsible for coordinating fisheries after the new EU Baltic Strategy is expected to be formally endorsed later in October. The Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (SBSR) most likely signifies the beginning of stronger regionalisation within the European Union, key fisheries issues such as fleet capacity, discards and illegal catches being … Continued
Free to download from the Internet, a new 478-page book on “Fisheries, sustainability and development” is recommended by a Swedish professor as both “encyclopaedia and student literature”. Thirty-two articles by 52 experts, scientific in scope but popular in style, cover both socioeconomical and ecological aspects of fisheries, as well as aquaculture. The project, chiefly financed by … Continued
In a joint declaration in Stockholm, eight Baltic Sea fisheries ministers and Commissioner Joe Borg have announced plans to develop a road map for a ban on discards. The road map, to be worked out in 2010, would aim at banning discards in the Baltic cod fishery, a measure that has been in force for … Continued
Reacting to renewed violence in the African state of Guinea, the EU Parliament Fisheries Committee has rejected a draft fisheries agreement between the Union and Guinea. The agreement would had provided €450,000 a year in EU funding to develop Guinea’s fisheries sector, and meanwhile allow EU boats to fish in Guinean waters. The vote took … Continued
An EU initiative to create more transparency in the handing out of fisheries subsidies has rather resulted in more obscurity, a new report says. The report for FishSubsidy.org, a British NGO dedicated to obtaining and publishing data on EU funding, was authored by investigative journalist Brigitte Alfter, a co-founder of FishSubsidy.org. Headlined “Slipping through the net: … Continued
A two-month moratorium on eel fishing in Holland took force on October 1, making Dutch professional fishermen publicly predict their soon demise. The European Union has set a goal of a 40 per cent escapement, and the member states were two years ago asked to submit national recovery plans to that end to the Commission … Continued
Some 150 stakeholders, civil servants, scientists and politicians listened, learned and debated regionalisation – one of the perhaps most popular, but complex aspects of the upcoming CFP reform. The high-level conference, organised by FISH, Pew Environment Group and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as a joint OCEAN2012 and WWF event, in order to … Continued
The proposed EU Control Regulation, still subject to last-minute debate and last-second changes, has led the WWF to issue an angry letter to both ministers and attachés. The World Wide Fund for Nature says some of the most important control priorities are now running the risk of being scrapped from the final proposal, which the … Continued