Fisheries

The Common Fisheries Policy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This makes it one of...