Fisheries

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The Common Fisheries Policy

Around three-quarters of all European fish stocks are overexploited. This overfishing threatens to decimate stocks to the...

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EU Fisheries Fund

For too long, subsidies have helped to build up excessively large fleets and funded environmentally damaging fishing...

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Removal of fins of sharks on board vessels

The practice known as 'shark finning', whereby sharks' fins are cut off on board fishing vessels and their bodies are then...

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Deep-sea fishing

Fishers have had to sail further and fish in ever deeper waters as easy-to-catch fish stocks close to home have steadily...

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Fisheries partnership agreement with Mauritania

In many developing countries, EU fishing interests endanger the subsistence of local fishermen by over-exploiting stocks....

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The external dimension of the Common Fisheries Policy

EU fleets fish far beyond European waters and import so much fish from so far away that EU fisheries policy includes many...

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Fisheries partnership agreement with Morocco

Since European waters are over-exploited, the EU negotiates fisheries agreements with countries all over the world to allow...

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Conservation of fishery resources through technical measures

Technical measures are detailed regulations on fishing practices, such as minimum mesh sizes for nets, minimum landing sizes...

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Fisheries partnership agreement with the Republic of Guinea

Since most European fish stocks have been over-exploited or are severely depleted, European fishers also fish outside the...

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Combating illegal fishing at the global level - the role of the EU

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing accounts for at least 15% of all catches globally.

This makes it one of...

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