Fisheries
The Common Fisheries Policy
Around three-quarters of all European fish stocks are overexploited. This overfishing threatens to decimate stocks to the...
EU Fisheries Fund
For too long, subsidies have helped to build up excessively large fleets and funded environmentally damaging fishing...
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...
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...
Fisheries partnership agreement with Mauritania
In many developing countries, EU fishing interests endanger the subsistence of local fishermen by over-exploiting stocks....
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...
Fisheries partnership agreement with Morocco
Since European waters are over-exploited, the EU negotiates fisheries agreements with countries all over the world to allow...
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...
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...
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...