Stop overfishing

Overfishing is at present still the most disruptive threat to functioning marine and coastal ecosystems. Since the developments with adapting and deploying military technology at industrial scale in combination with massive public subsidies overfishing is no longer localised but brings down global production of wild fish since the mid-1990s.

Bycatch in EU Fisheries: From Awareness to Action

Bycatch in EU Fisheries: From Awareness to Action

Welcome by MEP Paulo do Nascimento Cabral This year's EU Ocean Week organised by the big Blue NGOs in collaboration with Members of [...]

Screening & Discussion: OCEAN with David Attenborough

Screening & Discussion: OCEAN with David Attenborough

Three MEPs graced this special event in the evening of Wednesday, 15 October 2025: Isabella Lövin, Christophe Clergeau, and Sebastian Everding. Moderated by Laura Sullivan, [...]

Shark Lab: Protecting Sharks for a Healthy Ocean

Shark Lab: Protecting Sharks for a Healthy Ocean

Explanations and display of fins mostly from endangered shark species confiscated at Frankfurt Airport. The diversity of fins in container shipments clearly shows that [...]

Examples of participatory marine protection from across the EU

Examples of participatory marine protection from across the EU

Hosted by MEP Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Member of the Fisheries Committee and Vice-Chair of the SEArica Intergroup, this EU Ocean Week session on Wednesday, [...]

Foreign overfishing fuels Senegal’s deadly migration crisis to Europe

Foreign overfishing fuels Senegal’s deadly migration crisis to Europe

The decades-long overexploitation of the marine fisheries resources of most West African countries is one of the top drivers of illegal immigration to Europe via [...]

A few more highlights from UNOC3

A few more highlights from UNOC3

Intense conversations, great initiatives, a fantastic festive atmosphere in the public Green Zone of the UN Ocean Conference and much stiffer terms in the governments' [...]

Make Fishing Fair in the EU, 25 March 2025

Make Fishing Fair in the EU, 25 March 2025

MEPs Isabella Lövin, Luke Ming Flanagan, and Emma Fourreau hosted the meeting ‘Make Fishing Fair’ organised by Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and Blue [...]

The 4 Blue Notebooks | Les 4 Cahiers Bleus | Los 4 Cuadernos Azules

The 4 Blue Notebooks | Les 4 Cahiers Bleus | Los 4 Cuadernos Azules

United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3), Nice, France, 9-13 June 2025 - co-hosted by France and Costa Rica. Update: Our side event has been accepted. [...]

Strict protection in European seas: how it helps people and nature

Strict protection in European seas: how it helps people and nature

The 4th EU Blue Parks Community Workshop took place on 6 March 2025 in Brussels as part of the third edition of the EU Ocean [...]

Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025

Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced the Commission wants to develop a new Ocean Pact in order to ensure coherence across all [...]