Fisheries related content 

Conservation groups say sustainable limits being ignored. Member states' ministers reached an agreement on the total amount of fish EU vessels can catch next year in the...

Damning report to be published by the European Court of Auditors. The European Fisheries Fund (EFF) has largely failed in its objective to reduce the overcapacity of the EU's...

The Commission presents its proposals for restraint that may save the fishing industry – and fish – from destructio Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for...

Commission to unveil plans for fisheries reform; transferable fishing rights would be extended. Maria Damanaki, the European Commissioner for fisheries, will next week...

With 85% of fish stocks over-exploited, how can fisheries recover? Here are some options. Many people know that oceans cover more than 70% of the world's surface, and that...

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...

Commission to set out reform of fishing rules. Giving fishing crews guaranteed rights to catch fish will make the industry more responsible and profitable, the European...

Fisheries commissioner to tell national fishing control inspectors to enforce new controls. Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries and maritime affairs,...

Maria Damanaki sees tackling discards as an important aspect of reforming the common fisheries policy. Fishing crews should be banned from dumping unwanted fish at sea,...

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...

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

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...

How a British diplomat won over an ambassador from Iceland. The death last week of Donald Maitland, British ambassador to the EU between 1975 and 1979, robs us of the chance...

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...

No need for radical change? The fishing industry and conservationists beg to differ. The talk in the corridors of Brussels is that member states are backing away from their...

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 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...

Transparency campaigners claim vessels guilty of breaching fisheries laws are still receiving EU money. Subsidies from the European Union are contributing to illegal...

The Commission decides to back a ban on trade in bluefin tune. The European Commission is set to throw its weight behind a near-total trade ban in bluefin tuna in a bid to...