#Act4 Aquatics It is becoming increasingly clear that, for the seas to continue to be food reserves, we must change our habits: fish less and better, cultivate algae and more shellfish. Slow Fish launches the recipe for the future of our seas with a focus on algae and shellfish 12 May 2019
It is the most important news humanity has ever received: the general collapse of life on Earth. Sustainable fishing targets are not preventing collapse of life in the oceans 9 May 2019
The European Parliament approved today in a plenary vote the first multiannual plan for demersal stocks (fish that live and feed near the sea bottom) for the Western Mediterranean Sea. The first agreement on fishing levels in the Mediterranean delays targets and may increase bottom trawling 4 April 2019
Today’s European Parliament plenary vote affirms immense step backwards to re-introduce environmentally harmful subsidies New EU fishery subsidy regime will contribute to continued overfishing 4 April 2019
#Act4 Aquatics JRC scientists developed a novel method to identify fish species present in processed food. This method is complementary to existing fish identification strategies and will support the prevention of frauds. Which fish is in your fishstick? EC scientists develop new method to identify fish species in processed food 3 March 2019
For 10 years, a rogue fishing vessel and its crew plundered the world’s oceans, escaping repeated attempts of capture. Then a dramatic pursuit across the high seas finally netted the one that got away. The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea 18 February 2019
#Act4 Aquatics The European Parliament and EU member states clinched an agreement late last night (13 February) over new technical conservation measures for fishing, which includes an EU-wide ban on the controversial pulse trawling starting from mid-2021. EU approves ban on electric pulse fishing from 2021 14 February 2019
Fisheries ministers are risking the sustainability of fish stocks by consistently setting fishing limits above scientific advice. Fishing limits and science - overfishing in the North East Atlantic 11 February 2019
The MSC certification for all North East Atlantic mackerel fisheries will be suspended on Saturday 2nd March 2019. Fisheries in eight northern European countries lose sustainability certificate on mackerel 28 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Parliament voted today to adopt the first-ever multiannual plan for fishing in the Western Mediterranean Sea but rejected the necessary conservation measures that would fix the region’s overfishing crisis, where over 80% of stocks are overexploited and some at risk of collapse. European Parliament fails to adopt necessary conservation measures in first Western Mediterranean fishing plan 10 January 2019
#Act4 Aquatics Animal Friends Croatia has - in collaboration with Eurogroup for Animals - launched a campaign to protect the fish in the Adriatic sea. Protect our fish! 7 August 2018 Prijatelji životinja