Category: Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
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Shipyards Gain Fresh Backing Under Europe’s Ports Strategy
Piraeus: Europe’s largest ports and shipyards have been handed a fresh industrial mandate, as the…
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Tuna Inspectors Fan Out Across the Mediterranean This Season
Vigo: The chase for bluefin tuna across the Mediterranean is once again running under a…
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Baltic Cod Collapse Forces Deeper Cuts to This Year’s Catch Limits
Gdansk: Crews working the southern Baltic are feeling the squeeze this summer as tighter catch…
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Fishing Fleets Back a Ban on Deep-Sea Mining as Ocean Act Nears
Vigo: Europe’s fishing industry has thrown its weight behind a hard line on deep-sea mining,…
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Vietnam Races to Shed Europe’s Yellow Card on Illegal Fishing
Hanoi: Vietnam has spent eight years trying to escape a warning it never wanted, and…
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Seychelles Tuna Pact Reopens Waters to Europe’s Distant Fleets
Victoria: Europe’s distant-water fleet secured fresh access to some of the Indian Ocean’s richest fishing…
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EU Fishing Quotas Fall as the Ocean Pact Turns One
Brussels: Europe entered 2026 with lighter nets. Ministers agreed a fresh round of fishing quotas…
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Paperless Certificates Tighten the Net on Illegal Fishing
Every consignment of imported seafood now reaches the European Union with a digital paper trail,…
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Mackerel Catch Limits Fall 48% as Atlantic Stocks Keep Sliding
Killybegs: Skippers along the Donegal quays absorbed the hardest cut to mackerel quotas in years…
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Ministers Gather in Cork to Reshape EU Fisheries Policy
Cork: European Union fisheries ministers met in the Irish port city of Cork on 28…
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Europe and Seychelles Sign Four-Year Tuna Fishing Pact
European tuna vessels have secured guaranteed access to some of the Indian Ocean’s richest fishing…
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Seafood imports face a tougher check against illegal fishing
Vigo: At Europe’s busiest fishing port, every crate of imported cod and tuna now carries…
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Fisheries Fund Heads for a Simpler Rulebook and a Subsidy Ban
Peniche: Along the Atlantic quays of this Portuguese fishing town, skippers are weighing what a…
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Fishing Controls Tighten as EU Vessel Tracking Bites
Vigo: In Europe’s largest fishing port, skippers who once slipped in and out of harbour…
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Herring Advice Points to a Zero-Catch Year in the Baltic
Kiel: Scientists have told Europe’s fisheries ministers to stop catching one of the Baltic’s signature…
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Ocean Act Moves From Consultation Toward a Late-2026 Vote
Brussels: The European Commission closed its public consultation on the Ocean Act on 16 July…
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Digital Catch Certificates Tighten Europe’s Net on Illegal Fishing
Vigo: Every crate of imported fish that lands on a European quay now carries a…
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Driftnet Crackdown Gathers Pace to Shield Dolphins and Whales
Sète: Along the Mediterranean quays where swordfish boats unload their catch, a long-running fight over…
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Baltic and North Sea States Align Their Maritime Spatial Plans
Kiel: The crowded waters of the North Sea and the Baltic are forcing their coastal…
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Coastal Fleets Stand to Gain From a Simpler EU Fisheries Fund
Vigo: From Europe’s busiest fishing port, where trawler crews and processing plants live and die…
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Ocean Act Advances as Baltic Fish Stocks Near Collapse
Brussels: The European Commission has closed public consultation on its planned Ocean Act, gathering views…
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Fishing Fleets Face a New Map as the Ocean Act Nears
Europe’s fishing crews and offshore industries are about to get a rulebook that tries to…
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Offshore Wind and Trawlers Learn to Share Crowded EU Seas
Esbjerg: As offshore wind farms march further out into European waters, the Union is grappling…
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New Zealand Pulls Europe Into a Shared Ocean Mission
Wellington: New Zealand has quietly become one of Europe’s most natural partners on ocean security,…