Missing at Sea – A New EU Deep-sea Fishing Regulation: Destruction continues as governments delay reform
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1 July, 2015
21 November, 2014
On 10 and 11 November EU fisheries ministers are scheduled to decide on fishing limits for deep sea stocks in 2015 and 2016. This will be done for the first time under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
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21 November, 2014
Several NGOs (Access Info, Ecologistas en Acción, Fundació ENT, Greenpeace, Oceana, WWF and Deep Sea Conservation Coalition) have sent an information request to the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment in order to clarify the impact on the Spanish deep-sea fleet of the European Commission’s proposal for a new regulation for the management of deep-sea fishing in the Northeast Atlantic. Since the early stages of the negotiation process on the proposal, both the Spanish government and the industry have publicly, and on several occasions, stated data that present large discrepancies regarding the impact of the proposal on the fleet operating in deep-waters.
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31 October, 2014
The deep-sea areas off the British Isles, though cold, dark and remote from land, are teeming with unique life: cold-water corals, sponge fields, and a large variety of unique underwater habitats and species. Some have been discovered only recently by scientists, and it is likely that many more are yet to be found.
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31 October, 2014
The European Commission released a proposal in July 2012 (COM(2012)0371) for a new regulation establishing specific conditions for fishing deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the Northeast Atlantic in order to replace the current EU deep-sea access regime.
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21 October, 2014
On 10 and 11 November EU fisheries ministers are scheduled to decide on fishing limits for deep sea stocks in 2015 and 2016. This will be done for the first time under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
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27 May, 2014
Letter by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition together with WWF, OCEANA, Greenpeace and ecologistas en acción adressing the current reform of the European Union Regulation on deep-sea fisheries in the North-East Atlantic.
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8 April, 2014
Source: European Union Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department B – Structural and Cohesion Policies, Fisheries, 2014.
This Analysis examines the situation in the fishery for deep-sea species in the North-East Atlantic. It presents an overview of the legislation for management of the stocks and compares the NEAFC management regime with the EU regime and the legislation in the coastal states in the North-East Atlantic. The note recommends a revision of the list of species that at present defines deep-sea fisheries, and a change in EU legislation for defining deep-sea fishing vessels. It also encourages coastal states in the North Atlantic to build on the measures agreed in NEAFC in national waters.
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31 January, 2014
17 December, 2013
On 10 December 2013, the European Parliament votedon a proposalto regulate EU Deep Sea fisheries in the North East Atlantic. The Parliament narrowly decided (by 342 to 326) to reject a proposaltophase out targeted deep-‐sea bottom trawling and bottom gillnetting.
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