Water, Marine & Fisheries

Latest in Fisheries and the CFP

• The importance of tackling environmental crime

  IEEP supported the final conference of the EU EFFACE project, focusing on the importance of adopting improved measures to tackle environmental crime.

• Paper on the challenges of taking account of long timescales in the management of Europe’s regional seas

  There many physical, biological and social characteristics of marine systems which are slow to change. Understanding these is important if marine managers are to develop effective targets and measures to deliver environmental improvements.

• Allocating fishing rights to the most sustainable fishers - practical recommendations

  One of its most important reforms in the new Common Fisheries Policy is the introduction of a requirement on Member States to use transparent and objective criteria of an environmental nature when allocating fishing opportunities. This report for RSPB makes recommendations for UK Governments on how to implement this requirement comprehensively and ambitiously.

• Challenges of achieving good environmental status in the Black Sea

  Achieving Good Environmental Status in the Black Sea is particularly challenging due to governance structure. This paper explores this in relation to eutrophication and fisheries management.

• Guidelines for biodiversity proofing the EU budget

  This report provides a practical framework to ensure that spending under the EU budget has no negative impacts on biodiversity, and that spending under the EU budget is overall supportive to achieving the biodiversity targets.

• Inland fisheries and the Common Fisheries Policy

  The reformed fisheries policy could lead to improvements in the state of commercial inland fisheries, if the measures are properly implemented, with the greatest potential coming from the strengthening of community-led local development.

• Biodiversity proofing of the EU budget

  This study shows how more can be done to firstly avoid and minimize detrimental impacts of EU funding on biodiversity, and secondly to increase biodiversity benefits.

• The Ecosystem Approach in Marine Management

  The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires Member States to apply an “ecosystem approach to marine management”. This report defines the ecosystem approach and puts it into context by describing the challenges of applying it across Europe’s seas.

• Independent review of the EU Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Regulations

  This review highlights the potential of the EU IUU Regulation to deter illegal fishing and the challenges during the first 18 months of implementation.

• El Anzuelo Volume 23

  European newsletter on fisheries and the environment.This issue: CFP reform

• IEEP publishes CFP Health Check

  The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform process officially began in April 2009 with the launch of the Green Paper. The newly published CFP Health Check examines the CFP and progress made since 2002. It ...

• Achieving Sustainable Fisheries conference: registration

  Registration is now open for the Achieving Sustainable Fisheries conference, to be held in Brussels, April 3, 2009.The current European Fisheries Policy hasn't delivered. IEEP is working with Baltic Sea ...

• New report: INDENT, INDicators of ENvironmental inTegration

  The INDENT report quantifies, evaluates and interprets a suite of indicators selected by the European Commission on the environmental performance of the Common Fisheries Policy. Based on this report the ...

• Final Analysis and Evaluation of the INDECO Indicators available

  One of the last INDECO deliverables has reported on the final evaluation of the list of INDECO indicators. Specific consideration is given to their usefulness, practicability and to what extent they address ...