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09 Aug 2015

A radio briefing on the challenges of the CFP – from Chris Williams

If you need quick briefing on the challenges of the reformed CFP try this. Chris explains the background and the challenges of issues like discards and MSY. Pity about the advert at the start. https://audioboom.com/boos/3411479-sustainability-fish-and-the-future-of-fishing-with-chris-williams-nef

06 Jul 2015

Discards & CFP – Responses to the Demersal Landing Obligation Consultation – Defra

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Defra: ‘We appreciate that the implementation of the landing obligation is the biggest change in fisheries management in a generation so plan to give the industry as much as time as possible to familiarise and adapt to the new policy. Therefore we’re aiming to release the full implementation policy and any supporting information in the autumn. We […]

28 Apr 2015

Breakthrough in protection of the Dogger Bank Natura site, ecological heart of the North Sea

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Birdlife International: ‘ After years of negotiation, the Dogger Bank, a unique and massive complex of Natura 2000 sites belonging to the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands will finally get its needed fisheries management plan.’ Beam trawls and other bottom gear will be excluded from about a third of the Dogger Bank. This is a […]