An article by Richard Black, Environmental Correspondent for BBC, presents the current proposals for the CFP reform. Among other things, the current draft’s center points are planned to consist of eliminating discards, encourage the use of selective fisheries, multi-annual management plans for stock recovery, and restoring fisheries to a Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) level by 2015.
Polish members of the OCEAN2012 coalition are gearing up for a street performance “The story of the Golden Fish”, which will take place on May 20th during the European Maritime Day celebrations in Gdańsk, Poland.
The upcoming CFP reform will include organisational and funding upgrades that emphasise the growing role of aquaculture, Commissioner Maria Damanaki said after the fisheries ministers’ April Council meeting.
Very far from its classic haunts in the Caspian Sea, sturgeon for exclusive caviar productions is now bred in – the Abu Dhabi desert.
With the Atlantic bluefin tuna hovering on the brink of extinction, an Australian company reports promising progress in a program to produce aquaculture-bred Southern Bluefin Tuna.
An overwhelming majority of European consumers – in southern Europe more than 90 percent – want to see more sustainably caught products in the fish counters, a recent WWF poll shows.
The Fisheries ministers’ 14 April Council meeting will include a first discussion of a new regime for the Western Waters, a huge part of the area the Union controls.
With the rules now having been adopted for how the 2010 Control Regulation is to be enforced, getting away with fishing illegally will get much more difficult, the EU Commission says.
Sweden will continue to utilise an exemption from EU rules on the dioxin content in fat fish from the Baltic Sea, the responsible minister announced.
With only a few weeks remaining until a draft agreement is expected, the chair of the WTO negotiating group dealing with subsidies said he needed a period for “reflections”, while nations describing themselves as “friends of the fish” called for ambitious rules limiting fisheries subsidies.