21 January 2015
21 January 2015
Wednesday, 21 January: Today MPs from across party divides have joined with leading UK marine scientists and NGOs to call on the government to take a leading role in EU negotiations to ensure sustainable deep-sea fisheries, the phasing out of the most destructive methods, bottom trawling and gillnetting, and minimise harm to vulnerable deep-sea More…
19 January 2015
19 January 2015
A year ago, after having bitterly fought and sabotaged the European Parliament’s vote on the ban of deep-sea bottom trawling, the group Intermarché “reached out” to NGOs – especially BLOOM – which had exposed their destructive deep-sea fishing practices, notably via the viral cartoon by French illustrator Pénélope Bagieu.[1] This comic strip sparked incredible More…
19 November 2014
19 November 2014
Today, a gathering orchestrated by BLOOM in collaboration with several NGOs including an international coalition of over 70 organizations – the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition – is taking place in front of a forum in Paris on the theme of “tomorrow’s fisheries”. The message to French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal is that the public More…
09 November 2014
09 November 2014
War of words as industry hits back after calls for an end to foreign fishing nets in Scottish waters Special Report By Rob Edwards Environment Editor Sunday 9 November 2014 The wildlife is thousands of years old, there are species upon species that have not yet been discovered and it is key to the survival More…
24 October 2014
24 October 2014
The European deep-sea regulation is still not progressing at the European Council of Ministers. Therefore 28 European NGOs have sent a letter today to the Italian Presidency of the EU for a call to action. Read it here France is still blocking the European legislation because of its fierce opposition to the ban on deep-sea More…
03 October 2014
03 October 2014
The European Commission has just released its proposal on fishing opportunities for deep-sea fish stocks in 2015-2016. Fishing for deep-sea species has been regulated in the EU since 2003 and quotas for deep-sea species are decided every two years by the Council of Fisheries Ministers. But since its implementation, the regulation of deep-sea fisheries, including More…
02 October 2014
02 October 2014
In November 2012, the Council of Fisheries Ministers had decided of a drastic increase of quotas for French fleets involved in deep-sea fishing. This was inconsistent with the precautionary approach that has been repeatedly called for by ICES with regards to the management of deep-sea fisheries and led to increased captures of bycatch species, some More…
08 September 2014
08 September 2014
Non-profit organization BLOOM and LUSH Cosmetics campaign for a historic EU ban on deep-sea bottom trawling From 8th – 14th September 2014 LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics shops across Europe will host a campaign to raise awareness about the destruction caused by deep-sea bottom trawling and to ask European governments to support a ban of what More…
28 July 2014
28 July 2014
The French trawling lobby, BLUE FISH, teamed with the lobbying firm G Plus Europe, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group, to defend trawling interests and ensure that the most destructive and the least selective, least provider of jobs, least economically viable fishing methods such as deep-sea bottom trawling will not be called into question by More…
18 July 2014
18 July 2014
DELWOOD BIARRITZ – Beach ©BLOOM/DELWOOD © Romain Quesada/Biarritz POPAY Brussels – EU Council BLOOM/POPAY © Gautier Houba/Bruxelles PANIK LONDON – Kensington Road BLOOM/PANIK © Team Lurkers/London DAVID JAE ANTUNES LISBON – Praça do Comércio BLOOM/David JAE Antunes © Jorge Coelho/Lisboa JB ROCK ROME – Ministry of Agriculture BLOOM/JB ROCK © Camilla Morandi/Roma SP-38 BERLIN More…
