🚨Last week, @pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs called for an increase of the budget in #MFF 2028-2034: a ring-fenced €7.5 billion to ensure
➡food safety
➡️competitiveness of the sector
➡️quality jobs
➕21 /➖ 3 /🟰 2
🗣️Rapporteur Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR, NL)
Read the PECH opinion👇
link.europa.eu/vGNQ49
📢 In 15 minutes @pech.europarl.europa.eu :
🔹"Assessing the impact of seafood imports on EU self-sufficiency"
Presentation of the study: bit.ly/759-344
🔹Implementation of the Fisheries Control Regulation– provisions recently entered into force
🎦Video: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
🪝Ocean diplomacy should be at the core of the EU foreign policy, say @pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs.
🌊Željana Zovko's (EPP, HR) initiative report on "the role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture" just approved:
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➖4
🟰4
Read more here👇
link.europa.eu/dMQQqT
Wednesday @pech.europarl.europa.eu:
🗳️Implementation into EU law of measures adopted by several RFMOs
🗣️European fisheries and aquaculture statistics, draft report @S_Arnaoutoglou
🎣Debate on the implementation of the Fisheries Control Regulation
Highlights👇
link.europa.eu/4rgwkY
Full day at the Fishing Port North, Victoria🇸🇨!
MEPs @emmawiesner.bsky.social, @pacomilla.bsky.social, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Sakis Arnaoutoglou and Siegbert Droese visited purse seiners, a tuna cannery, a weighing operator and a cold storage facility.
#SFPAs, #sustainablefisheries, #IOTC
Members of the European Parliament delegation with the President of Seychelles Dr. Patrick Herminie
🌊On the first day in Victoria, @pech.europarl.europa.eu
delegation met w/ the President of Seychelles Dr. Patrick Herminie, the Speaker of Seychelles National Assembly, the Minister of #Fisheries & #BlueEconomy & members of the International Affairs Committee.
#SFPAs, #IOTC, #sustainablefisheries
📢From 17 to 19 February, @pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs are in Victoria🇸🇨 to discuss
🔹progress made towards more sustainable fishing within the #SFPA 🇪🇺-🇸🇨
🔹fisheries control and data collection
🔹fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/7VpKm3
🚨Tuesday, @pech.europarl.europa.eu meeting:
🗳️Approaches for safeguarding sensitive species
🇨🇾Priorities of the Cyprus Presidency
🌊Implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive @syoncourtin.bsky.social
➡️Presentation of the study: link.europa.eu/x3YRk6
Details⤵️
link.europa.eu/y67bpn
🎯European Parliament proposals to rise to the🇪🇺 #fisheries sector energy transition challenge:
➡️Renewal schemes
➡️More funding
➡️Energy audits to fishing vessels
➡️Changes to the current legislative framework
Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)
👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/ftBXBw
Members of European Parliament Committee on Fisheries take part in a committee meeting
📢MEPs will meet next Wednesday to debate
🔹EFCA's work programme 2026 w/@susan-steele.bsky.social
🔹Application into 🇪🇺law of measures adopted by #RFMOs @Thomas Bajada
🔹Report on simplification w/Commissioner Costas Kadis
🔹Fishing quotas for the Mediterranean 2026
🎦Watch live: link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
Yesterday, #EPlenary debated the fishing quotas for 2026 & the challenges 🇪🇺EU fishers face:
🔹depleted stocks
🔹aged fishing fleet
🔹insufficient funding of the sector #EMFAF
🔹difficult working conditions
🔹unstable income
🎦Watch the debate again:
www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/v...
📢⚡️At the end of the afternoon, MEPs will debate @europarl.europa.eu:
🎣Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of the fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities
🎦Watch live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
📢 EP policy department published an in-depth analysis on
🔴"Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea - The shift to ecosystem reference points (ERPs)"🐟
👉Full briefing here: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
#Research4Committees
🚨In a 🆕report adopted today @pech.europarl.europa.eu,
MEPs are proposing fleet renewal schemes, with national and EU funding and private investor support, for a successful green energy transition🛥️
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➖ 3
🟰 3
Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)
👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/YkgTF6
🌊 #BalticSea @pech.europarl.europa.eu agenda
🔹Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation
👉Presentation of study: link.europa.eu/Xdw94M
🔹The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea
👉Consideration of Isabella Lovin's draft report: link.europa.eu/MqXC98
🎦Watch again: link.europa.eu/VbFcj9
Infographic on the state of the Baltic Sea environment, showing the results of assessments carried out during the period 2016-2021. It illustrates the proportion of the Baltic Sea, based on square kilometres, in different assessment status categories.
Although the #BalticSea multiannual plan helped reduce fishing pressure, it has not succeeded in restoring key stocks above sustainable biomass levels
🔎 link.europa.eu/Kvq4wp
@pech.europarl.europa.eu
At the #GFCMSession, MEPs Thomas Bajada and Nora Junco Garcia followed progress on a new fit-for-purpose compliance scheme that guarantees a level playing field for all fleets in #Mediterranean.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu Committee Chair Carmen Crespo Díaz met w/ GFCM Secretary General Miguel Bernal.
🚨Tuesday @pech.europarl.europa.eu
🗳️Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries
Debates
🕙European fisheries and aquaculture statistics
🕓Multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea & ways forward
🕔Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation
🔴Public Hearing👇
🎦Live link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
🎣MEPs Nora Junco Garcia and Thomas Bajada are in Málaga🇪🇸 for the 48th session of General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu participants in #GFCMSession are working for better management of #Mediterranean and #BlackSea #fisheries and #aquaculture.
📢 In-depth analysis on "Women in fisheries🌊 - State of play and progress on gender equity in the EU"🇪🇺
👉Read more here: bit.ly/4nFMbEY
Analysis from EP Policy Department
#research #Fisheries #EUFisheries #GenderEquality
📢How will the Commission’s proposal for European fisheries and aquaculture statistics regulation address the shortcomings of the current European fisheries statistics framework?
🎣Briefing from @ep-eprs.bsky.social
👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/9FkM4D
🎣MEPs wrapped up their visit to Bay of Biscay.
@pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs met w/ representatives from
👉the fishing🇫🇷🇪🇸, aquaculture and processing sectors &
👉regional and local authorities
w/ whom they discussed
🔹the impact of 🇪🇺rules on fisher's work &
🔹the Commission proposal to cut #EMFAF funds
🎣MEPs visiting the Bay of Biscay met with Antton Curutcharry, mayor of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry 🇫🇷
They also visited the Ispéguy aquaculture farm and fish processing workshop, and spoke to representatives of the fish farming industry
🛥️On their visit to the Bay of Biscay, @pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs visited the harbour and a fish auction hall in Ciboure.
In conversations with local fishermen, representatives and regional authorities from 🇫🇷🇪🇸, they discussed current issues in fisheries management
@idoiamendia.bsky.social
🎣Six members from the @pech.europarl.europa.eu,
, led by @erics40.bsky.social, will visit the Bay of Biscay, from 27 to 30 October, to learn about the challenges facing French🇫🇷 and Spanish🇪🇸 fishers.
👉More details in EN: link.europa.eu/8XwGK6
👉More details in FR: link.europa.eu/PWqrWc
📢Thursday (9.45-12.30), @pech.europarl.europa.eu debates:
🔹The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries & aquaculture
Rapporteur Željana Zovko (EPP, HR)
🔹Fishing opportunities for the Baltic Sea 2026
🔹Reporting from the mission to Greenland
🔴Watch live: link.europa.eu/kJTnfJ
🎣Recent surveys suggest growing consumer interest in knowing the environmental impact of the fishery products they buy.
European Parliament suggests improving labelling, control & standards.
👉Learn more from @ep-eprs.bsky.social ⤵️
🔗https://link.europa.eu/QRXvh8
Wednesday, @europarl.europa.eu confirmed tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire:
32 🇪🇺 vessels can continue to fish tuna in 🇨🇮 waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following Parliament’s vote
➕520
➖ 97
🟰 12
Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)
Details ⤵️
link.europa.eu/vVmpyT
🗳️Parliament confirms tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire
32 🇪🇺 vessels can continue to fish tuna in 🇨🇮’s waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following @europarl.europa.eu vote (+ 520/ - 97/ = 12)
Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)
👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/vVmpyT
"Greenland needs the European Union, and the European Union needs Greenland." 🇬🇱🤝🇪🇺
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen spoke at the European Parliament today, emphasising the potential of broader and stronger cooperation with the EU.
Read more: link.europa.eu/wwffTf
