Source: The Fish Site
The scale of economic dependence on deep-sea fisheries in Europe is low, according to new information presented by the European Commission during a Fisheries Committee debate in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Continue reading Deep-sea Fishing in Europe: High Environmental Costs, Minimal Economic Dependence
Source: EuropeanVoice.com
Author: Matthew Gianni and Marcus Knigge
On 6 February, the European Parliament used its newly-gained co-decision powers to vote overwhelmingly in favour of an ambitious reform of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, reversing 30 years of failed EU fisheries management.
Continue reading Commission should not go slow on regulating deep-sea fishing
Letter text is copied below.
For background, please also refer to the story of 22 March 2013:
Continue reading Letter to Members of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee
On Wednesday the Environment Committee of the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of total reform of the EU’s deep-sea fishing Regulation by 58 votes to one. The vote by the Environment Committee, based on a proposal from Member of European Parliament (MEP) Anna Rosbach, would establish a rigorous science based process to setting quotas to fish deep-sea species, prevent the bycatch of the most vulnerable deep-sea species, require prior impact assessments for all deep-sea bottom fisheries, and phase-out deep-sea bottom trawl fishing and bottom gillnet fishing.
Source: The Economist
ON SEPTEMBER 16th 2012, at the height of the summer melt, the Arctic Ocean’s ice sheet had shrunk to an area of 3.41m square kilometres (1.32m square miles), half what it was in 1979. And its volume had shrunk faster still, to a quarter of what it was in 1979, for the sheet is getting thinner as well as smaller. One culprit is global warming, which is fiercer at the poles than elsewhere. The world’s average temperature in 2012 was nearly 0.5°C above the average for 1951-80. In the Arctic, it was up almost 2°C.
Source: Diversity and Distributions, A Journal of Conservation Biology
Authors: Rebecca E. Ross and Kerry L. Howell
Abstract
Aim: To demonstrate the application of predictive species distribution modelling methods to habitat mapping and assessment of percentage area-based conservation targets.
Source: USA Today
Author: Dan Vergano
Lost in a Black Sea tempest, the ancient shipwreck waited 2,300 years to be discovered. And it took the swipe of just one passing trawler for the secrets held in the bones of its long-drowned crew to be lost forever.
Continue reading Titanic explorer: Ancient shipwrecks lost to trawlers
Los grupos miembros de la Deep Sea Conservation Coalition piden que el Secretario General de Pesca, Carlos Domínguez, reconsidere su oposición a la nueva propuesta legislativa publicada por la Comisión Europea (CE) el 18 de julio para gestionar la pesca en aguas profundas. La propuesta eliminaría progresivamente el uso de la volanta de fondo y la pesca de arrastre de profundidad en el océano Atlántico Nororiental y Centro-Oriental. Este reglamento requerirá un establecimiento de cuotas y una gestión pesquera de especies de profundidad basadas en criterios científicos mucho más rigurosos.
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) today welcomed the proposal by the European Commission to phase out destructive deep-sea bottom trawling and bottom gillnetting by EU fishing fleets in the Northeast Atlantic.
Damanaki to Release European Commission Deep-Sea Access Regime Proposal
The Pew Environment Group today encouraged the European Commission to implement significant reforms to EU deep-sea fishing regulations. The Commission is preparing to release its deep-sea access regime proposal before the end of the first quarter of 2012.
Continue reading Pew urges reforms to deep-sea fishing regulations
