Stop overfishing

Overfishing is at present still the most disruptive threat to functioning marine and coastal ecosystems. Since the developments with adapting and deploying military technology at industrial scale in combination with massive public subsidies overfishing is no longer localised but brings down global production of wild fish since the mid-1990s.

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 [...]

WTO still without a deal on harmful fisheries subsidies

WTO still without a deal on harmful fisheries subsidies

Changemakers of the coalition ‘Stop funding overfishing, stop harmful fisheries subsidies’ at MC13 Today, as during the past Ministerial Conference (MC13), the vast [...]

Improving Fisheries Governance (IFG) in Ghana and the Wider Subregion, Accra, 22-24 October 2024

Improving Fisheries Governance (IFG) in Ghana and the Wider Subregion, Accra, 22-24 October 2024

Prof. Francis Nunoo, Chairman, of the Fisheries Commission Board, Ghana, opened the workshop with participants from fisheries departments and civil society organisations from member countries [...]

WTO: we need an ambitious agreement to stop harmful fisheries subsidies

WTO: we need an ambitious agreement to stop harmful fisheries subsidies

Stop harmful fisheries subsidies Since more than 20 years, the WTO has had a mandate to phase out harmful fisheries subsidies. Even after [...]

Webinar: Nigeria’s Fisheries challenges and opportunities

Webinar: Nigeria’s Fisheries challenges and opportunities

The new President of Nigeria has created a Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy as one of the innovations to social and economic development of [...]

Presenting the FishBase app at the Symposium in Tervuren

Presenting the FishBase app at the Symposium in Tervuren

The FishBase Team of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, headed by Prof. Jos Snoeks, hosted the annual FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium for the [...]

EP Hearing on EU Citizen Initiative to stop shark finning

EP Hearing on EU Citizen Initiative to stop shark finning

Did you know that sharks are killed worldwide in millions especially for their fins? Europe contributes a shocking 45% to the shark fin trade to Asian [...]

EP Committee of Fisheries discusses the role of China in fisheries

EP Committee of Fisheries discusses the role of China in fisheries

China not only has the largest fishing fleet in the world, but with 1.4 billion people is also a huge market of people who like to [...]

All eyes on WTO in Hilden, Germany

All eyes on WTO in Hilden, Germany

With World Ocean Day, 8 June, and the beginning of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva around the corner, it [...]