A ten-year review of the implementation of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 61/105, 64/72 and 66/68 on the management of bottom fisheries in areas beyond national jurisdiction
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A ten-year review of the implementation of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 61/105, 64/72 and 66/68 on the management of bottom fisheries in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Available in English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese.
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.
Available in Spanish.
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.
Available in Spanish.
A Letter by Client Earth, Marine Conservation Society,Bloom, Greenpeace, Oceana, Seas At Risk, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) adressing EU Council discussion on regulation to manage deep-sea fisheries in the North-East Atlantic.
Available in English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish.
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.
Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Portuguese.
Available in English (read below), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
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).
Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese.
