Fisheries Committee
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
📤 107
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📝 55
European Parliament Committee on Fisheries. Managed by Raquel Lopes. RTs ≠ endorsement.
🚨MEPs
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
have endorsed a provisional deal on the application of provisions for fishing in the
#GFCM
(General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) Agreement area 🗣️EP work was led by rapporteur Željana Zovko (EPP, HR) ⬆️23 ⬇️ 3 ↔️ 1 🗒️Read more here⤵️
link.europa.eu/VMRpTX
6 days ago
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🚨This afternoon, MEPs hosted the commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis🇪🇺 Presentation of the
@ec.europa.eu
evaluation of the
#CommonFisheriesPolicy
EC press release:
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
🎦Watch the debate again⤵️
link.europa.eu/9FPqPr
6 days ago
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📢Now
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
debate on the implementation of support to -
#CommonFisheriesPolicy
-
#EuropeanOceanPact
- Maritime & aquaculture part of the National and Regional Partnership (NRP) Fund 2028-2034 🗣️Draft report by Niklas Herbst (EPP, DE) Watch live:
link.europa.eu/9FPqPr
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https://link.europa.eu/9FPqPr
6 days ago
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🚨Tomorrow
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
: 🔹Hearing: Tackling fisheries-related crimes & protecting EU fishers from crime and
#IUU
fishing 🔹Vote: Provisions for fishing in the
#GFCM
area. Rap. Željana Zovko (EPP, HR) 🔹Debate: Evaluation of the
#CFP
w/ Commissioner Kadis Highlights👇
link.europa.eu/gm7QcH
7 days ago
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📢 Public hearing
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
tomorrow (10.00): Tackling fisheries-related crimes and protecting EU fishers from such crime and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing 📖Programme ⤵️
europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/3067...
🎦Watch live⤵️
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
#IUU
7 days ago
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🚨On the second day of the official mission to the Azores, Portugal,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
delegation is in Horta. This morning, MEPs were hosted by the President of the Regional Assembly of the Azores, Luís Garcia. Read more about the mission⤵️
link.europa.eu/fnDHvk
13 days ago
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📢A
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
delegation arrives today to the Azores🇵🇹 to assess the implementation and impact of EU fisheries and maritime policies. 🎣More information on the programme, objectives and participants of the mission ⤵️
link.europa.eu/KKxQjJ
#CommonFisheriesPolicy
,
#MarineProtectedAreas
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MEPs to assess impact of EU fisheries and maritime policies in the Azores | News | European Parliament
On 26 and 27 May, six members of the Committee on Fisheries will be in the Azores to assess the implementation and impact of EU fisheries policy in the outermost region.
https://link.europa.eu/KKxQjJ
14 days ago
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
EP Press Service
19 days ago
🗳️Parliament calls for urgent measures to stop fish stock decline in the Baltic Sea The European Parliament urges the Commission and EU countries to take emergency measures to reset Baltic Sea ecosystem. Details ⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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Parliament wants urgent measures to stop fish stock decline in the Baltic Sea | News | European Parliament
The European Parliament urges the Commission and EU countries to take emergency measures to reset Baltic Sea ecosystem.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260513IPR43315/parliament-wants-urgent-measures-to-stop-fish-stock-decline-in-the-baltic-sea
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
EP Press Service
20 days ago
🗳️Parliament: the sea should be a place for fishing and aquaculture On Wednesday, MEPs adopted recommendations to protect fishers and aquaculture producers from power imbalances in an increasingly competitive maritime space. Details⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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Parliament: the sea should be a place for fishing and aquaculture | News | European Parliament
On Wednesday, MEPs adopted recommendations to protect fishers and aquaculture producers from power imbalances in an increasingly competitive maritime space.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260513IPR43314/parliament-the-sea-should-be-a-place-for-fishing-and-aquaculture
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📢Starting now
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
↪️ Role of
#FisheriesLocalActionGroups
(FLAGs) in the next
#MFF
🕓· European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund mid-term evaluation
#EMFAF
🕔· Guidelines on aquaculture & national strategic plans 📹Watch live⤵️
link.europa.eu/YM9Rqj
about 1 month ago
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🚨Presentation of study
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
: Navigating the Commission’s
#MFF
proposal for 2028-2034 − Mapping threats and opportunities for the
#fisheries
and
#aquaculture
sectors Study:
link.europa.eu/q9qGgD
& At a glance:
link.europa.eu/CbqbH6
Watch the debate again⤵️
link.europa.eu/YM9Rqj
about 1 month ago
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📢⚡️MEPs adopted their position on a regulation to simplify and clarify the
#statisticaldata
that underpins EU political decisions on
#fisheries
and
#aquaculture
. 🗣️Rapporteur Sakis Arnaoutoglou (S&D, Greece) Read more here⤵️
link.europa.eu/yrCVKT
about 1 month ago
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📢🌊Members
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
ask the
@ec.europa.eu
to - assess and possibly revise its
#Baltic
multiannual plan - a new risk management approach - TACs should be aligned with precautionary approach 🗣️Rapporteur Isabella Lövin (Greens/EFA, SE) 👉Read the press release:
link.europa.eu/4g647b
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MEPs call for a revision of the multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea | News | European Parliament
MEPs in the Committee in Fisheries are asking the Commission to assess and possibly revise its Baltic multiannual plan and for a new risk management approach.
https://link.europa.eu/4g647b
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
European Parliamentary Research Service
about 2 months ago
The Baltic Sea multiannual plan is a fisheries management plan that helped reduce fishing pressure, but restoring key stocks above sustainable biomass levels remains challenging. Our EPRS study provides an implementation assessment of the plan 👉
link.europa.eu/Kvq4wp
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
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📢👏
[email protected]
welcomes the activation of Article 26(2) of the
#EMFAF
by the
@ec.europa.eu
to address rising fuel costs through crisis support measures. 🎦Watch the video of the debate with DG Mare this morning
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
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Committee on Fisheries Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
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https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/pech-committee-meeting_20260415-0900-COMMITTEE-PECH
about 2 months ago
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📢MEPs
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
call for a more balanced use of the maritime space & ask for improvements to ensure safety for fishers and the health of maritime ecosystems. 🗣️Maritime Spatial Planning Directive raporteur
@syoncourtin.bsky.social
(Renew, FR) 👉Press release:
link.europa.eu/Tt7fyq
about 2 months ago
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📢This morning
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
: MEPs gave 🟢 to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the 🇸🇹Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe & the 🇪🇺EU for 2025–2029. ➕23 ➖ 3 🟰 1 🗣️Rapporteur Nora Junco García (ECR, ES) Draft recommendation:
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PECH-PR-781112_EN.pdf
about 2 months ago
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📢MEPs
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
validated the protocol on the implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the 🇪🇺EU & the 🇨🇰Cook Islands for 2025-2032. ➕21 ➖ 6 🟰 0 🗣️Rapporteur Oihane Agirregoitia (Renew, ES) Draft recommendation:
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
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about 2 months ago
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📢This afternoon,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs discussed: 🕑The fight against cross-border illegal fishing in the Mediterranean 🕒Implementation of the EU Eel Regulation 1100/2007 🕓New generation of sustainable fisheries partnership agreements Watch the video of the debates👇
link.europa.eu/rv4rT3
about 2 months ago
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📢MEPs
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
and
@envi.europarl.europa.eu
voted unanimously! 🐢"Empowering 🇫🇷 to accede to the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles" 🗳️96 to Melissa Camara (Greens, FR) and @PierMaran's (S&D, IT) report 🗳️92 to start negotiations w/ Council
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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🚨The EU fishing fleet is suffering the impact of the conflict in the Middle East due to rising fuel costs. The chair of the Committee on Fisheries Carmen Crespo Díaz (EPP, ES) asked the
@ec.europa.eu
to activate the EU’s crisis framework. Read the statement here👇
link.europa.eu/FY4j3H
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3 months ago
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MEPs
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
debated 🔹Fisheries agreement with Cook Islands🇨🇰, rapporteur MEP Oihane Agirregoitia (Renew. ES) 🔹Support of
#CFP
,
#EUOceanPact
, marine and
#aquaculture
policy as part of the
#NRP
fund,
#MFF
, rapporteur MEP Niclas Herbst (EPP, DE) Watch live👇
link.europa.eu/b7Tjh7
3 months ago
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On Tuesday,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs elected Paulo do Nascimento Cabral (EPP, PT) first vice-chair by acclamation. 🎦Follow the meeting live:
link.europa.eu/JDq7dp
3 months ago
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🚨Tuesday,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs will debate 🔹Cormorant management w/ Ian Cowx and Raymon van Anrooy
#EIFAAC
@fao.org
🔹Agreement w/ Cook Islands🇨🇰, rap. Oihane Agirregoitia (Renew, ES) 🔹#CFP,
#EUOceanPact
and
#aquaculture
as part of
#NRPP
fund 2028-2034 Highlights⤵️
link.europa.eu/PNMwXV
3 months ago
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📢This plenary
@europarl.europa.eu
called for action to tackle marine invasive alien species🪼 ➕528/➖21/ 🟰62 🔹🇪🇺
@ec.europa.eu
, EU countries &
#fishers
should join forces to protect sensitive species 🗣️Rapporteur André Franqueira Rodrigues (S&D, PT) More in the press release👇
link.europa.eu/QVybq7
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Parliament calls for action to eradicate marine invasive alien species | News | European Parliament
MEPs want fishers, the Commission and EU countries, to join forces to protect sensitive species and target invasive ones. They also call for fishers to be compensated in the event of losses.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37523/parliament-calls-for-action-to-eradicate-marine-invasive-alien-species
3 months ago
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
European Parliamentary Research Service
3 months ago
🌊 Will 2026 be the year of action for the
#oceans
? Commission President just announced the
#OceanEye
initiative. What else to expect this year? Read Chapter 9 of 10 issues to watch in 2026 👉
link.europa.eu/rVgvkY
@anjahazekamp.bsky.social
@melissacamara.bsky.social
@emma-fourreau.bsky.social
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
European Parliamentary Research Service
3 months ago
⚓ Commission published the EU industrial maritime strategy yesterday. 🌊 The
#OceanEye
initiative was announced on Monday. Read more on the blue economy and the European
#ocean
pact 👉
link.europa.eu/DPrkMn
@anjahazekamp.bsky.social
@melissacamara.bsky.social
@emma-fourreau.bsky.social
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🚨Last week,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs called for an increase of the budget in
#MFF
2028-2034: a ring-fenced €7.5 billion to ensure ➡food safety ➡️competitiveness of the sector ➡️quality jobs ➕21 /➖ 3 /🟰 2 🗣️Rapporteur Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR, NL) Read the PECH opinion👇
link.europa.eu/vGNQ49
3 months ago
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📢 In 15 minutes
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
: 🔹"Assessing the impact of seafood imports on EU self-sufficiency" Presentation of the study:
bit.ly/759-344
🔹Implementation of the Fisheries Control Regulation– provisions recently entered into force 🎦Video:
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
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Research for PECH Committee - Assessing the impact of seafood imports on EU self-sufficiency | Think Tank | European Parliament
Research for PECH Committee - Assessing the impact of seafood imports on EU self-sufficiency
https://bit.ly/759-344
3 months ago
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🪝Ocean diplomacy should be at the core of the EU foreign policy, say
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs. 🌊Željana Zovko's (EPP, HR) initiative report on "the role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture" just approved: ➕18 ➖4 🟰4 Read more here👇
link.europa.eu/dMQQqT
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Ocean diplomacy should be at the core of EU foreign policy, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs call for a coherent approach to ocean management, blending its geopolitical and economic dimensions with trade, social and environmental aspects.
https://link.europa.eu/dMQQqT
3 months ago
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Wednesday
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
: 🗳️Implementation into EU law of measures adopted by several RFMOs 🗣️European fisheries and aquaculture statistics, draft report @S_Arnaoutoglou 🎣Debate on the implementation of the Fisheries Control Regulation Highlights👇
link.europa.eu/4rgwkY
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Committee on Fisheries - Highlights of the next meeting | News | European Parliament
MEPs will vote on the implementation into EU law of RFMOs measures and debate with the Commission on the implementation of the Fisheries Control Regulation.
https://link.europa.eu/4rgwkY
4 months ago
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Full day at the Fishing Port North, Victoria🇸🇨! MEPs
@emmawiesner.bsky.social
,
@pacomilla.bsky.social
, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Sakis Arnaoutoglou and Siegbert Droese visited purse seiners, a tuna cannery, a weighing operator and a cold storage facility.
#SFPAs
,
#sustainablefisheries
,
#IOTC
4 months ago
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🌊On the first day in Victoria,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
delegation met w/ the President of Seychelles Dr. Patrick Herminie, the Speaker of Seychelles National Assembly, the Minister of
#Fisheries
&
#BlueEconomy
& members of the International Affairs Committee.
#SFPAs
,
#IOTC
,
#sustainablefisheries
4 months ago
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📢From 17 to 19 February,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs are in Victoria🇸🇨 to discuss 🔹progress made towards more sustainable fishing within the
#SFPA
🇪🇺-🇸🇨 🔹fisheries control and data collection 🔹fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing 👉Read more here:
link.europa.eu/7VpKm3
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Fisheries: MEPs to assess the impact of partnership agreements with Seychelles | News | European Parliament
A Committee on Fisheries delegation will travel to Victoria to review the impact of the fisheries deals between the EU and Seychelles.
https://link.europa.eu/7VpKm3
4 months ago
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🚨Tuesday,
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
meeting: 🗳️Approaches for safeguarding sensitive species 🇨🇾Priorities of the Cyprus Presidency 🌊Implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive
@syoncourtin.bsky.social
➡️Presentation of the study:
link.europa.eu/x3YRk6
Details⤵️
link.europa.eu/y67bpn
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Implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive: Impact on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins | Think Tank | European Parliament
Implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive: Impact on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins
https://link.europa.eu/x3YRk6
5 months ago
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🎯European Parliament proposals to rise to the🇪🇺
#fisheries
sector energy transition challenge: ➡️Renewal schemes ➡️More funding ➡️Energy audits to fishing vessels ➡️Changes to the current legislative framework Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL) 👉Read more here:
link.europa.eu/ftBXBw
6 months ago
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📢MEPs will meet next Wednesday to debate 🔹EFCA's work programme 2026 w/@susan-steele.bsky.social 🔹Application into 🇪🇺law of measures adopted by
#RFMOs
@Thomas Bajada 🔹Report on simplification w/Commissioner Costas Kadis 🔹Fishing quotas for the Mediterranean 2026 🎦Watch live:
link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
6 months ago
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Yesterday,
#EPlenary
debated the fishing quotas for 2026 & the challenges 🇪🇺EU fishers face: 🔹depleted stocks 🔹aged fishing fleet 🔹insufficient funding of the sector
#EMFAF
🔹difficult working conditions 🔹unstable income 🎦Watch the debate again:
www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/v...
6 months ago
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📢⚡️At the end of the afternoon, MEPs will debate
@europarl.europa.eu
: 🎣Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of the fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities 🎦Watch live:
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
6 months ago
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📢 EP policy department published an in-depth analysis on 🔴"Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea - The shift to ecosystem reference points (ERPs)"🐟 👉Full briefing here:
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
#Research4Committees
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[Publication] Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea. The shift to ecosystem reference points (ERPs)
Publication: November 2025 Download: English Author: Christian MÖLLMANN, University of Hamburg, Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainabi…
https://research4committees.blog/2025/11/13/publication-fisheries-management-in-the-baltic-sea-the-shift-to-ecosystem-reference-points-erps/
7 months ago
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🚨In a 🆕report adopted today
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
, MEPs are proposing fleet renewal schemes, with national and EU funding and private investor support, for a successful green energy transition🛥️ ➕19 ➖ 3 🟰 3 Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL) 👉Read more here:
link.europa.eu/YkgTF6
7 months ago
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🌊
#BalticSea
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
agenda 🔹Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation 👉Presentation of study:
link.europa.eu/Xdw94M
🔹The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea 👉Consideration of Isabella Lovin's draft report:
link.europa.eu/MqXC98
🎦Watch again:
link.europa.eu/VbFcj9
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7 months ago
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reposted by
Fisheries Committee
European Parliamentary Research Service
7 months ago
Although the
#BalticSea
multiannual plan helped reduce fishing pressure, it has not succeeded in restoring key stocks above sustainable biomass levels 🔎
link.europa.eu/Kvq4wp
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
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At the
#GFCMSession
, MEPs Thomas Bajada and Nora Junco Garcia followed progress on a new fit-for-purpose compliance scheme that guarantees a level playing field for all fleets in
#Mediterranean
.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
Committee Chair Carmen Crespo Díaz met w/ GFCM Secretary General Miguel Bernal.
7 months ago
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🚨Tuesday
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
🗳️Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries Debates 🕙European fisheries and aquaculture statistics 🕓Multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea & ways forward 🕔Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation 🔴Public Hearing👇 🎦Live
link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
7 months ago
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🎣MEPs Nora Junco Garcia and Thomas Bajada are in Málaga🇪🇸 for the 48th session of General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
participants in
#GFCMSession
are working for better management of
#Mediterranean
and
#BlackSea
#fisheries
and
#aquaculture
.
7 months ago
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📢 In-depth analysis on "Women in fisheries🌊 - State of play and progress on gender equity in the EU"🇪🇺 👉Read more here:
bit.ly/4nFMbEY
Analysis from EP Policy Department
#research
#Fisheries
#EUFisheries
#GenderEquality
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[Publication] Women in fisheries – State of play and progress on gender equity in the EU
Publication: October 2025 Download: English Authors: Jannyna MIRES-ROJAS (Trainee), Irina POPESCU and Marcus BREUER (Research administrators) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Women play a crucial but often overlo…
https://bit.ly/4nFMbEY
7 months ago
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📢How will the Commission’s proposal for European fisheries and aquaculture statistics regulation address the shortcomings of the current European fisheries statistics framework? 🎣Briefing from
@ep-eprs.bsky.social
👉Read more here:
link.europa.eu/9FkM4D
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European fisheries and aquaculture statistics framework – implementation takeaways | Think Tank | European Parliament
European fisheries and aquaculture statistics framework – implementation takeaways
https://link.europa.eu/9FkM4D
7 months ago
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🎣MEPs wrapped up their visit to Bay of Biscay.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
MEPs met w/ representatives from 👉the fishing🇫🇷🇪🇸, aquaculture and processing sectors & 👉regional and local authorities w/ whom they discussed 🔹the impact of 🇪🇺rules on fisher's work & 🔹the Commission proposal to cut
#EMFAF
funds
7 months ago
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🎣MEPs visiting the Bay of Biscay met with Antton Curutcharry, mayor of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry 🇫🇷 They also visited the Ispéguy aquaculture farm and fish processing workshop, and spoke to representatives of the fish farming industry
7 months ago
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