Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

The EAF is recognised as key to healthy and productive fisheries. It has five major components: (1) maintain ecosystem integrity (no fish is an island); (2) a precautionary approach to fisheries and other use of marine and coastal ecosystems and respecting the rules; (3) broad stakeholder participation; (4) promoting sectoral integration and safeguarding livelihoods; (5) investing in research and knowledge.

Bycatch in EU Fisheries: From Awareness to Action

Bycatch in EU Fisheries: From Awareness to Action

Welcome by MEP Paulo do Nascimento Cabral This year's EU Ocean Week organised by the big Blue NGOs in collaboration with Members of [...]

Screening & Discussion: OCEAN with David Attenborough

Screening & Discussion: OCEAN with David Attenborough

Three MEPs graced this special event in the evening of Wednesday, 15 October 2025: Isabella Lövin, Christophe Clergeau, and Sebastian Everding. Moderated by Laura Sullivan, [...]

Shark Lab: Protecting Sharks for a Healthy Ocean

Shark Lab: Protecting Sharks for a Healthy Ocean

Explanations and display of fins mostly from endangered shark species confiscated at Frankfurt Airport. The diversity of fins in container shipments clearly shows that [...]

Examples of participatory marine protection from across the EU

Examples of participatory marine protection from across the EU

Hosted by MEP Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Member of the Fisheries Committee and Vice-Chair of the SEArica Intergroup, this EU Ocean Week session on Wednesday, [...]

Empowering Coastal Voices

Empowering Coastal Voices

Co-creating the Future of Marine Policy?! “Living by the sea, I’ve witnessed first-hand the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by coastal communities. To solve [...]

Mundus maris with Youth Parliament in Hilden, Germany, 23 August 2025

Mundus maris with Youth Parliament in Hilden, Germany, 23 August 2025

Invited by the Youth Parliament in Hilden, Germany, to a flee market for driving longer use of cloths and household items together with information about [...]

Make Fishing Fair in the EU, 25 March 2025

Make Fishing Fair in the EU, 25 March 2025

MEPs Isabella Lövin, Luke Ming Flanagan, and Emma Fourreau hosted the meeting ‘Make Fishing Fair’ organised by Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and Blue [...]

The 4 Blue Notebooks | Les 4 Cahiers Bleus | Los 4 Cuadernos Azules

The 4 Blue Notebooks | Les 4 Cahiers Bleus | Los 4 Cuadernos Azules

United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3), Nice, France, 9-13 June 2025 - co-hosted by France and Costa Rica. Update: Our side event has been accepted. [...]

Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025

Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced the Commission wants to develop a new Ocean Pact in order to ensure coherence across all [...]

What future for European fishers?

What future for European fishers?

Not a trivial question; especially considering that nine years back a detailed study on the state of fisheries resources in European waters demonstrated the enormous [...]