French NGO call to President Hollande: the Future of the Deep Oceans is in Your Hands.
Available in French.
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
French
8th June 2013
Publications
Letter by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition and other organisations to the French Minister of Ecology adressing ‘France’s commitment to biodiversity/ deep-sea fisheries dossier’.
Available in French.
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
French
1st June 2013
Letter to the Members of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee adressing the Progress on Commission’s proposal (COM(2012)0371) for a regulation establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the North-East Atlantic.
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, European Union, High Seas
English
1st June 2013
WWF, Ecology Action Centre and for a living planet Preliminary Questions and Recommendations to the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Working Group of Fishery Managers and Scientists on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Meeting in Halifax, Canada in April 2013.
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
English
1st April 2013
Currently, there are a range of mining operations in the shallow seabed, including diamond mining in Namibia and Tin mining in Indonesia. Due to rising demand for minerals and metals and declining land-based resources, there has been a recent surge of interest in exploration of both shallow and deep sea resources. However, there are environmental concerns with mining the seabed. Only a fraction of the deep sea has been scientifically studied to date and there have been no commercial scale mining trials so far. Nonetheless, given the nature, scale and locations of proposed seabed mining activities serious and, in some cases, widespread negative impacts on habitats and marine life can reasonably be expected.
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Mining
English
1st March 2013
The European Union has one of the world’s largest deep-sea fishing fleets. There is widespread scientific evidence that deep-sea bottom trawl fishing is the greatest direct threat to deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystems, including coldwater coral reefs, sponge gardens and seamount ecosystems, and causes serious declines in deep-sea fish populations.
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, European Union, High Seas
English
1st March 2013
Briefing on Draft Report on proposal (COM(2012)0371) for a regulation establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-sea stocks in EU and international waters of the North-East Atlantic (15 March 2013).
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, European Union, High Seas
English
1st March 2013
Joint NGO Letter to the European Commission adressing the Lack of protection for Europe’s cold-water coral reefs through technical conservation measures (February 2013).
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, European Union, High Seas
English
1st February 2013
- Tom Blasdale – ICES
- del Mar Sacau Cuadrado – Centro Oceanografico de Vigo
- Liberato Fernandes – Cooperative Porto de Abrigo
- Matthew Gianni – Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
- Pascal Lorance – Deepfishman
- Francis Neat – ICES – Marine Scotland
- Claire Nouvian – Bloomassociation
- Phil Weaver – National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Deep-Sea Fishing, European Union, High Seas
English
1st February 2013
The scientific workshop to review fisheries management, held in Lisbon in May 2011, brought together 22 scientists and fisheries experts from around the world to consider the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions on high seas bottom fisheries: what progress has been made and what the outstanding issues are. This report summarises the workshop conclusions, identifying examples of good practice and making recommendations in areas where it was agreed that the current management measures fall short of their target.
Available in English.
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st January 2013