Fish related content 

Conservation groups criticise deal. Ministers responsible for fisheries have attracted stinging criticism from conservation groups after increasing many of the fishing quotas...

Greater consumption of fish and exhausted European stocks mean that the EU has to look outside its waters to satisfy demand. The custom of “Fish Fridays” might have...

The EU's institutions in a tangle about sustainable fish (cont.). The article “Mysteries of the deep” (Entre Nous,  27 January-3 February) claims that the European...

Do the Commission's caterers have sustainable fishing in mind when they draw up their menus? The European Commission wants fishermen to stop catching endangered species of...

National governments opposed to Commission proposal to cut quotas The European Commission is facing strong opposition from national governments to reducing fishing quotas...

Fishing nations decide on a minimal reduction in quotas for Atlantic bluefin tuna. Conservationists have denounced as “business-as-usual” an agreement on...

EU fisheries ministers are to set catch quotas for exotic deep-sea fish that face over-exploitation. The brick-red orange roughy, the two-metre long blue ling and the inky...

Tuna-fishing nations to meet in Paris next week. The member states of the European Union could reopen their long-running arguments over bluefin tuna on Friday (12 November),...

Fisheries commissioner wants to scale back quotas on Mediterranean bluefin tuna. Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries, is to call for “a substantial...

Herring is stirring up emotional feelings around the Baltic Sea. Countries around the Baltic Sea are arguing over how much fish they should be allowed to catch in 2011, as...

Legal shenanigans over tuna. The European Commission will can an action in the European Court of Justice that it was going to bring against the Netherlands and the UK for...

Endangered fish on menu ‘in error' ; no sustainability criteria for restaurants. The menu in a European Commission restaurant was last week offering diners Atlantic...

Maria Damanaki talks about the challenges she faces in reforming Europe's Common Fisheries Policy. When Maria Damanaki thinks of the task she faces in reforming EU fisheries...

Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries, has reprimanded five Mediterranean member states for failing to curb unsustainable fishing in the sea. The...

European Commission reports decline in number of species at grave risk. The number of fish species in European waters that have reached dangerously low levels has fallen...

The Netherlands and the UK could be fined for supporting stronger protection for endangered bluefin tuna than the EU. The European Commission is considering legal action...

The EU has failed to secure greater protection for certain types of marine life at an international convention. Do endangered fish deserve the same protection as endangered...

EU-sponsored proposals fail to win support at international conference. The EU's ambition to restrict trade in endangered sharks and coral was rebuffed this week at an...

EU fails to win enough support for ban at international conference. The EU has failed in its attempt to get trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna banned at an international...

Tuna trade ban EU member states have agreed to support a ban on trade in bluefin tuna from 2011. The decision, taken by EU ambassadors on Wednesday (10 March), becomes the...