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Fisheries Subsidies

BirdLife Europe, Greenpeace, Oceana, OCEAN2012 and WWF are urging EU decision-makers to champion the use of future fisheries subsidies  to  promote sustainable fishing practices rather than fuelling overcapacity. Below are several documents in response to the Commission's proposal for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
 
The EMFF outlines some new directions for EU fisheries subsidies. However, it falls short of funding the necessary shift to sustainable fisheries. Blind spending of EU taxpayers’ money on modernising vessels without a proper assessment of the capacity of the fleet in relation to the available resources should stop. In times of global debt crisis, the perverse use of fisheries subsidies and the cost of overfishing are brought into sharp focus: the only real benefits lie in the recovery of fish populations.
 
EMFF funds should support measures aimed at improving data collection and scientific knowledge of fish stocks, promoting the dissemination and adoption of selective fishing gears and ultimately improving the state of fish stocks and well-being of coastal communities.
 
On this page, you will find a series of briefings and letters by OCEAN2012 and our NGO partners on the subject of subsidies.

 

Other documents:

Letter from OCEAN2012, Marevivo and Legambiente to Guido Milana, PECH Vice Chair (Italiano) Letter from Seas at Risk and The Fisheries Secretariat to members of the PECH committee on the EMFF (English) Joint NGO letter to members of the International Trade Committee in the EU Parliament highlighting how EMFF proposed amendments conflict with WTO commitments. (English) NGO Priorities on PECH Amendments to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (English) Letter to the Finnish minister (English) NGO joint letter to Commissioner Damanaki (English) Debunking Fisheries Subsidies Myths (English) Letter to the UK minister (English) Letter to the German minister (Deutsch) Letter to the Spanish minister (Español) Letter to the Greek minister (ελληνικά - Greek) Letter to the Italian minister (Italiano) Letter to the Dutch minister (Nederlands) Letter to the Cypriot minister (ελληνικά - Greek) Letter to the Polish minister (Polski) Letter to the Irish minister (English) Letter to the Swedish minister (English) Letter to the Danish minister (English) NGOs urge improvements to Fisheries Committee draft report on the EMFF (English) Joint NGO Briefing on Fisheries Subsidies (English) NGOs ask members of the BUDGET committee to heed public opinion on shifts in fisheries subsidies (English) EU governments want to continue to subsidise overfishing (English) NGOs urge members of the ENVI Committee to heed public opinion on shifts in fisheries subsidies (English) NGOs urge the shadow rapporteurs on the future EMFF, to exclude aid for construction and modernisation (English)
Contact: Mike Walker mwalker@pewtrusts.org +32476622575