Thursday, 3 May 2018
The personal perspective of Jeremy Percy, Chairman of the Coastal PO
and Executive Director of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
The newsletter of March 2018 includes:
Follow this link to download News From The Deck – March 2018
The member organizations of LIFE in Spain present amendments to the “Comprehensive Management Plan for the conservation of fishery resources affected by fisheries carried out with purse seines, trawls and passive gears in the Mediterranean coast of Spain”.
Access the official PR in ENG/ES here
Access the official document in ES here
Las organizaciones miembro de LIFE en el mediterráneo español presentan alegaciones al “Plan de Gestión Integral para la conservación de los recursos pesqueros en el Mediterráneo afectados por las pesquerías realizadas con redes de cerco, redes de arrastre y artes fijos y menores”.
Acceda a la Nota de prensa oficial en ENG / ES aquí
Acceda al documento oficial en ES aquí
Two-year EU-funded project supporting small-scale fishers across the
Baltic and North Sea celebrates its closure with well attended gathering in Brussels
The newsletter of February 2018 includes:
Follow this link to download News From The Deck – February 2018
Article 17 and illegal discarding in the Baltic Sea: LIFE writes to Danish Minister Karen Ellemann and urges immediate action!
Access the official letter here
Access the official reply of the Ministry here
The newsletter of December 2017 & January 2018 includes:
Follow this link to download News From The Deck – December 2018 & January 2018
Follow this link to access the press review on pulse fishing
Press Release – for immediate release
How the failure to properly recognise and regulate the EU’s fish producer organisations [POs] is failing the Common Fisheries Policy and smaller-scale fishermen and what should be done to resolve it.
There is increasing interest amongst the small scale coastal fishers (SSCF) of Europe [80% by number of the overall EU fleet] in the possible benefits to them of creating small scale fisher specific producer organisations.
This would be good news for all parties interested in achieving the CFP’s objectives as the regulations acknowledge that POs are “the key” to achieving those objectives” and Europe’s small scale coastal fishers represent a large majority of all Europe’s fishers.
LIFE commissioned this report to determine whether the regulations and structure that Europe’s SSCF would be signing up to are fit for purpose, open, fair and equitable.
The report makes clear the need for the Commission and the Member States to take action to ensure that the conditions for recognition of producer organisations and inter-branch organisations laid down in Articles 14 and 16 of the Common Organisation of the Markets Regulation respectively are complied with.
Their continued failure to do so is a direct threat to the key objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy and the Common Organisation of the Markets.
We urge the Commission to carry out an urgent review of its Member States’ POs’ compliance and to consider our recommendations, which are intended to constructively propose ways to address the current regulatory system’s failure.
Note for Editors: The Low Impact Fishers of Europe platform [LIFE] is an organisation of organisations of small scale commercial fishermen across Europe, run by fishermen, for fishermen. Its mission is to achieve conditions in which fishing is performed in a sustainable manner and small scale low impact fishermen and women in Europe can maximise their social and economic viability.
ACCESS THE OFFICIAL REPORT IN ENGLISH HERE
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For further information contact Claudia Orlandini, Communications Officer in LIFE’s Brussels office on 0032 2741 2433 or for UK based inquiries; 0044 1437 751242
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