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An Account of the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Issue in the UK
Virtually all canned tuna in the UK is labelled as dolphin-safe despite the fact that the market is almost exclusively skipjack tuna. It is thus not implicated in the dolphin bycatch problem associated ...
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Managing Europe's Inshore Fisheries: Harnessing the new European Fisheries Fund
The overall goal of this report is to enable decision-makers, fisheries managers and other practitioners to harness the potential of the EFF for inshore waters. The report begins by placing the unique ...
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EU Fisheries: Decision Making Guide
Fisheries Policy is an exclusive competence of the European Union (EU). This means that all decisions are taken at the level of the Union. Member States cannot intervene in fisheries management unless ...
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Sustainable EU fisheries: Facing the Environmental Challenges: Conference report
IEEP and the Fisheries Secretariat (FISH) organised a high-level conference in November 2004, under the patronage of the Dutch Presidency of the EU Council. The aim was to re-examine the challenges facing ...
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N2K In-shore Fisheries briefing 1
EU nature conservation policy and UK inshore fishing overview of issues
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N2K In-shore Fisheries briefing 3
Species protection and the inshore fishing sector
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N2K In-shore Fisheries briefing 4
Appropriate assessment and European Marine Sites
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N2K In-shore Fisheries briefing 5
Managing European Marine Sites
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Analysis of the Legal and Institutional Policies relating to the South West
The report commissioned by IEEP for Invest in Fish South West reviews fisheries management options within the current international, EU and UK legislation.Invest in Fish South West is a ...
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CFP Briefing No 19
The provisions for stock recovery plans within the ‘basic’ Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (2371/2002) are one of several positive developments that came out of the 2002 CFP reform. ...
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El Anzuelo Volume 14
European newsletter on fisheries and the environment.This issue: New Era: New and old challenges - Maintaining momentum of CFP implementation
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Sustainable Fisheries Management: Presentation at Green Week 2004
Presentation at the Green Week 2004 on sustainable fisheries management
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Interaction Between the EU CFP and the Habitats and Birds Directives
Despite Member States’ commitments to protecting the marine environment, actual progress in conserving Europe’s marine biodiversity has been rather limited. This is particularly apparent in terms of the ...
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El Anzuelo Volume 13
European newsletter on fisheries and the environment.This issue: Focus on Governance
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RACS - Delivering Ecosystem Based Management? Report of IEEP/UK Statutory Nature Conservation Agency Workshop. The Centre, Brussels, 6 February 2004
On 6 February, the Institute for European Environmental Policy and the UK Statutory Nature Conservation Agencies organised a workshop to discuss the Commission’s proposed Decision on ...
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The Role of Fisheries Licensing in European Environmental Management
Fisheries managers face the dual challenge of achieving sustainable fisheries exploitation, while doing so through 'light' regulation. This is particularly the case in the European Union, where there is ...
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CFP Briefing No 18
On 9 October the Commission proposed a Regulation for the sustainable exploitation of Mediterranean Sea fishery resources (CO(2003)589). The Regulation would replace existing technical ...
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CFP Briefing No 15
At the beginning of October, the Commission adopted a Communication outlining intentions for the development of a Community Action Plan for the management of the European eel stock ...
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CFP Briefing No 16
In presenting its overall strategic approach to the Common Fisheries Policy reform in 2002, the Commission identified the conservation of commercial fish stocks as a key challenge facing ...
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CFP Briefing No 17
The Commission has come forward with its proposed decision on regional advisory councils (RACs), which is arguably the most concrete manifestation thus far of anew approach to EU fisheries ...