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25 March, 2015
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14 November, 2014
London, November 14, 2014 – The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) this week agreed to close six new areas totaling around 11,000 square kilometres to bottom fishing to protect vulnerable deep-sea species ecosystems and extended its prohibition on the catch of several shark species.
10 July, 2014
Source: Phys Org
Decades of overfishing in the English Channel has resulted in the removal of many top predators from the sea and left fishermen ‘scraping the barrel’ for increasing amounts of shellfish to make up their catch.
20 May, 2014
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition today called on the German government to lead the effort at European Council to phase-out deep-sea bottom trawling in the Northeast Atlantic to protect the biologically rich areas of the deep-sea in European waters.
Continue reading DSCC urges Germany to champion deep-sea conservation in Northeast Atlantic
20 May, 2014
DSCC urges UK to champion deep-sea conservation in Northeast Atlantic
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition today called on the UK government to lead the effort at European Council to phase-out deep-sea bottom trawling in the Northeast Atlantic to protect the biologically rich areas of the deep-sea in European waters.
Continue reading New findings: Deep-sea bottom trawling represents a major threat to the ecosystem
15 November, 2013
LONDON (Nov. 15, 2013) – At its annual meeting this week, the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, or NEAFC, has failed to close seven areas to deep-sea bottom fishing to protect vulnerable deep-sea species and ecosystems. These seven areas were recommended to be closed by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the scientific advisory organization mandated to provide advice to NEAFC on managing fisheries in the northeast Atlantic. Furthermore, after two years of negotiations NEAFC also failed to adopt revisions to its basic regulations for the protection of deep sea habitats and the conservation of deep-sea fish stocks to ensure consistency with United Nations General Assembly resolutions.
16 November, 2012
Due to the sheer complexity of managing deep-sea fisheries NEAFC’s five members – the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Russia and Denmark (on behalf of the Faroes Islands and Greenland) – could not complete the review this week but agreed to schedule further work on this issue in early 2013.
Continue reading Key Atlantic Fisheries Body Falls Short in Protecting the Deep Sea
3 October, 2012
Source: The Guardian
Author: Lewis Smith
European fishing fleets are flouting quotas for vulnerable deep sea fish and are landing up to 28 times more than allowed, a study has found.
Continue reading European fleets flouting deep sea fishing quotas, study finds
26 January, 2012
Damanaki to Release European Commission Deep-Sea Access Regime Proposal
The Pew Environment Group today encouraged the European Commission to implement significant reforms to EU deep-sea fishing regulations. The Commission is preparing to release its deep-sea access regime proposal before the end of the first quarter of 2012.
Continue reading Pew urges reforms to deep-sea fishing regulations
30 November, 2010
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition is deeply disappointed with the decision made by the European Union’s Council of Fisheries Ministers late last night to set Total Allowable Catches (TACs) and quotas for deep-sea fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic in contravention of United Nations General Assembly resolutions.
Continue reading EU Fisheries Ministers deep-six protection of the deep-sea