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4 November, 2013
2 October, 2013
Comments on amendments to the Commission’s proposal COM(2012)0371 for a regulation establishing specific conditions for fishing for deep-sea stocks in the Northeast Atlantic.
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1 October, 2013
Commission Proposal for a regulation establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the North-East Atlantic (COM(2012)0371).
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1 October, 2013
Following the exchange of views in the Fisheries Committee on September 18th, in which many inaccuracies were stated about deep-sea fish and fisheries, we would like to provide you with the best available information regarding the status and biological characteristics of deep-sea stocks, by-catch and discard rates of deep-sea fisheries, and EU and international precedents of restricting deep‐sea bottom trawls and gillnets.
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23 September, 2013
Letter to the Members of the European Parliament, Committee on Fisheries from Les Watling, Professor of Biology, University of Hawaii, USA in 2013.
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10 July, 2013
Letter to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania adressing the ‘Lack of Council response to the deep-sea fisheries proposal COM(2012) 371’.
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1 June, 2013
Letter to the Members of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee adressing the Progress on Commission’s proposal (COM(2012)0371) for a regulation establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the North-East Atlantic.
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1 March, 2013
The European Union has one of the world’s largest deep-sea fishing fleets. There is widespread scientific evidence that deep-sea bottom trawl fishing is the greatest direct threat to deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystems, including coldwater coral reefs, sponge gardens and seamount ecosystems, and causes serious declines in deep-sea fish populations.
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1 March, 2013
Briefing on Draft Report on proposal (COM(2012)0371) for a regulation establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the North-East Atlantic (15 March 2013).
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1 February, 2013
Joint NGO Letter to the European Commission adressing the Lack of protection for Europe’s cold-water coral reefs through technical conservation measures (February 2013).
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