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A LIFE reflection on the LO

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The Landings Obligation – No Simple Answers 11th of December 2019 Jeremy Percy On Monday, 2 December 2019, the PECH (Fisheries) Committee of the European Parliament organized a public hearing on State of play of the Landing Obligation: challenges and best practices (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/189086/Final%20Programme%20PECH%20public%20hearing-Landing%20Obligation_2.12.2019.2_EN-original.pdf). During the previous session of the Parliament, just over 18 months ago […]

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LIFE calls to the PECH Committee for historic wrongs to be put right

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The CFP has Created a Distorted Sea Brussels, 28th of november 2019 Brian O’Riordan For more than 3 decades successive Common Fisheries Policies have discriminated against and marginalised small-scale low impact fishers and their communities, favouring industrialised overfishing. In a letter addressed to the Chair of the Fisheries (Pech) Committee of the European Parliament, LIFE […]

Call to the EC for an inclusive Ocean Strategy

Call to the EC for an inclusive Ocean Strategy

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Small scale fisheries organisations and NGOs  join forces for an inclusive Oceans Strategy that takes into account the rights of fishing communities Brussels, 21st of november 2019 On World Fisheries Day, LIFE and an international network of organizations call to the European Commissioner-designate for Environment and Oceans, Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius, for an inclusive oceans strategy […]

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Stop to harmful subsidies

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Fisheries Subsidies:  public funds for public good, not individual gain. Not to help us fish more, but to help us fish better. Brussels, 4th of October 2019 Brian O’Riordan The Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) advocates that public funds should be used for public good, not individual gain. Fisheries and the marine environment are […]

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LIFE meets the new Commissioner

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  LIFE Meets with Commissioner-designate for the Environment and Oceans, Virginijus Sinkevičius Fisheries are, and will continue to be, an integral part of the EU’s blue economy – with an essential role to play in decarbonizing the food sector and in food security, LIFE was informed. Small-scale low impact fisheries could play an important role […]

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Regional Plan of Action for SSFs

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  Mediterranean fisheries RPOA-SSF monitoring framework and priority actions   Download it here   This document provides a common framework to guide the implementation of the Regional plan of action for small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (RPOA-SSF). For each main section within the RPOA-SSF the document identifies: –          General indicators to measure […]

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Cetaceans-Fisheries Interactions in the Med

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  LIFE Launches Initiative to Study Cetaceans- Fisheries Interactions The initiative involves the close collaboration between scientists and fishers, combining fishers local and experiential knowledge with scientific information in the quest for solutions.   Brussels, 9th of September 2019 The month of August saw LIFE and its partners launching an initiative in 3 areas of […]

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Looking for cod in the Baltic

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Whither Cod: where have all the codfish gone?   Brussels, 28 September 2019 Brian O’Riordan   What are the future prospects for fisheries in the Baltic Sea following the collapse of this keystone stock?   The time to act is past. LIFE said this in March. We say it again. We now live effectively in […]

Expulsion of Beam Trawlers from the Skagerrak (DK).

Expulsion of Beam Trawlers from the Skagerrak (DK).

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  Danish Low Impact Small-scale Fishers Call for the Expulsion of Destructive Beam Trawlers from the Skagerrak.    Protestors occupy Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen over the invasion of the destructive Dutch beam trawl fleet.    Copenhagen, August 28, 2019: This morning a group of small-scale coastal fishermen from Hanstholm, Thorupstrand, Løkken, Hirtshals […]

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Hands Across the Water

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  EU and North African small scale fishers join hands with EU Ministers to address common problems in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Marrakech, Morocco 12 June 2019 Brian O’Riordan   Today in Marrakech, Morocco, representatives of small-scale fishers from the European Union and North Africa committed themselves to working together to enable Mediterranean small-scale […]

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