THE EUROPEAN Parliament today voted to back a major reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The new proposals aim to cut fishing to sustainable stock levels, end dumping at sea (discards), and base long-term planning on sound scientific data. Environmental groups have welcomed [...]
THIS WEEK saw the last day that UK consumers eat home-grown fish. Annual domestic fish stocks can satisfy demand for about 233 days a year or until August 21 according to a new report by the New Economics Foundation. This leaves the UK reliant [...]
FISHERMEN AND Greenpeace have joined together in an unlikely alliance to lobby for changes to the Common Fisheries Policy. Together they have produced the manifesto for fair fisheries, a joint declaration between the environmental group, UK Fishermens Associations, fishermen and the New Under Ten Fishermens Association, [...]
EU Ministers have reached general compromise on the main proposals for reforming the Common Fisheries Policy from 2013. The proposal would give fleets quota shares guaranteed for at least 15 years and would see discards phased out. Now the horse trading starts. See proposed changes.
IN THE NEXT few months there will be a lot of noise about fish. The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is being reformed and businesses, environmental groups and celebrity chefs will be ramping up their efforts to lobby for a robust reform of the out-dated and controversial system. [...]
