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  • Last Christmas...

    DECEMBER 19 2011

     

    How has overfishing impacted our eating habits across Europe? From east to west, north to south Europeans have enjoyed traditional seafood dishes that are disappearing from our plates. The scarcity of once common fish featuring in many popular and seasonal recipes is pushing up prices beyond people’s reach. If we change the fate of EU-managed fish stocks, we might just save our traditional meal.

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  • OCEAN2012 calls EU fisheries subsidies ‘Blind Spending’

    DECEMBER 02 2011

    BRUSSELS — Markus Knigge, adviser to the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme and the OCEAN2012 coalition, issued the following statement today as the European Commission published its proposal for the next fisheries subsidies instrument, the European Fisheries and Maritime Fund.

    Press statement also available in French German Greek Italian Polish Portuguese Spanish

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CFP reform proposal response

European Commission proposes fisheries fix to Council and Parliament

BRUSSELS - While the Commission's proposal for reform of the European Union's Common Fisheries policy includes solid targets for the recovery of European fish stocks, it falls short in the way it addresses overcapacity, aiming to decrease the EU fishing fleet by what amounts to the quasi prioritisation of EU fish resources. Read the statement on the proposal by Uta Bellion, OCEAN2012 coordinator.

Serving up solutions

Monday, Jan 23 2012, European Parliament

A drink reception and sit down dinner dialogue and launch event for a new survey of the  the sustainability of Brussels fish restaurants, hosted by Linda McAvan, and supported by  OCEAN2012 and Fish2fork.

The dialogue was stimulated by the award winning British journalist and fish2fork campaigner, Charles Clover, and Jeremy Percy of the UK’s New Under Ten Fishermen Association (NUTFA), a member of OCEAN2012. 

OCEAN2012 and discards

OCEAN2012 position on the elimination of discards in EU waters and for EU fishing activities in third countries' waters

The Common Fisheries Policy reform offers an excellent opportunity to establish new policies that will address the discard problem. OCEAN2012's policy recommendations for the elimination of discards under a reformed CFP include the avoidance of unwanted catches, a discard ban that transitions from landing quotas to true catch quotas, and the setting of fishing mortality rates according to scientific advice.
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