EU and Mauritania restart negotiations for a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement The second round of negotiations for the renewal of the EU–Mauritania Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) concluded without reaching... 17/09/2014
Call on the EU to ban subsidies for high seas fishing The Global Ocean Commission (GOC), an initiative composed of 17 government and business leaders, called for an international governance system for... 07/09/2014
Tackling IUU through trade policy: The EU’s experience The European Commission (DG Mare) has recently published an overview of the state of implementation of the EU IUU regulation by member states, the... 07/09/2014
Improvements are needed for the EU IUU regulation, says new study A study entitled ‘Traceability, Legal Provenance & the EU IUU Regulation’, supported by the Stop Illegal Fishing Program and recently made publ... 07/09/2014
Developments in EU canned tuna market Two recent publications, the FFA Globefish market report and Trade and Industry News, in its special feature on the Infofish tuna conference 2014,... 06/09/2014
Discard ban implementation raises increasing criticisms A recent study in the scientific magazine Nature highlights that, on its own, the elimination of discards – a key measure agreed in the new EU Comm... 21/07/2014
Ghana and Seychelles will cooperate to boost tuna exports to the EU Seychelles and Ghana have signed an administrative agreement to boost their tuna exports towards the EU market. The agreement provides for the two... 21/07/2014
The EU warns PNG and the Philippines that they are not doing enough to combat IUU fishing The European Commission (EC) has issued a warning to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea (PNG) that they risk being identified as non-cooperating... 04/07/2014
First international standard to be developed for environmentally and socially sustainable fisheries The French standardisation agency, Afnor (Agence française de normalisation), has suggested that there is a need to create an internationally recog... 04/07/2014
An interview with Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, Director-General for Development Cooperation at the European Commission Mr Frutuoso de Melo has long-standing European experience, having held various positions within several EU institutions. From 1987 he was Depu... 29/06/2014