06 June 2023
Environmental performance of European political parties: BLOOM publishes a groundbreaking rating
06 June 2023
On the eve of a vote on the “Nature Restoration Law”, an essential European regulation proposal to restore and safeguard (…)
30 May 2023
Fishing quotas: Associations enter the fray
30 May 2023
Enough is enough: BLOOM and three fishers’ organizations call for the full transparency and fair distribution of fishing quotas. Far (…)
25 May 2023
Groundbreaking analysis reveals greenwashing of TotalEnergies’ climate change projects with renewables
25 May 2023
Ahead of TotalEnergies’ Annual General Meeting, as citizens and scientists denounce the company’s fossil fuel investments and call on its (…)
16 May 2023
Human rights abuses: the brutality contained in a tuna can
16 May 2023
Persistent. Endless. Relentless. Human rights abuses are pervasive in the tuna industry. This is the conclusion of a report that (…)
10 May 2023
Appeal lodged by BLOOM against the European Union and France for obstruction of ocean protection
10 May 2023
While the members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) have been gathered in Mauritius since Monday for their annual (…)
27 April 2023
Tuna fishing lobbies caught red-handed
27 April 2023
We knew it all along and they have just proved it: industrial fishing lobbies influence the official positions of States (…)
20 April 2023
Undue pressure from a panicked minister
20 April 2023
The French Secretary of State for the Sea Hervé Berville has certainly forged a path in fire. After having ignited (…)
13 April 2023
Stan Shea from BLOOM Hong Kong is awarded the 2023 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
13 April 2023
Stan Shea, the most long-standing member of BLOOM Association Hong Kong, was chosen to be one of the seven recipients (…)
11 April 2023
BLOOM files a complaint against the French State Secretary for the Sea before the Court of Justice of the French Republic
11 April 2023
Today, BLOOM is filing a complaint with the Court of Justice of the French Republic(1) against the French Secretary of State (…)
05 April 2023
The European Commission trumps its environmental and humanitarian mandate and acts as an industrial lobbyist in Africa
05 April 2023
While industrial tuna lobbies are under judicial investigation in France for unlawful taking of interests, the neo-colonial actions of France (…)
03 April 2023
France, the future 2025 UN Ocean Conference host, openly fights ocean protection
03 April 2023
The French Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville, has set the fishing sector on fire against Marine Protected (…)
31 March 2023
He who spreads lies and fear reaps chaos
31 March 2023
On the evening of 30-31 March 2023, the offices of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB; French: Office français de (…)
17 March 2023
A fishers’ coalition takes the European Commission to court for unlawful ‘failure to act’
17 March 2023
Press release – On BLOOM’s initiative, the association LIFE (‘Low-Impact Fishers of Europe’) and 27 French, Belgian, Dutch and British (…)
15 March 2023
Making a Killing: 150 tonnes of fish in one haul – a crime by any yardstick
15 March 2023
Press Release Following the catch of 150 tons of meagre by the purse seiner War Raog IV, amounting to 20% (…)
14 March 2023
‘Trawl Watch’: BLOOM launches accounts to track mega trawlers
14 March 2023
Today, BLOOM is launching a Twitter account called ‘Trawl Watch EU‘ with the aim of tracking down and denouncing mega (…)
06 March 2023
BLOOM sues the French State, supportive of environmental destruction in the Indian Ocean
06 March 2023
While the world is praising the laborious completion of the UN treaty on the High Seas, a concrete and urgent (…)
01 March 2023
The only concrete opportunity to protect nature threatened by the European right
01 March 2023
One year ago today, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the latest IPCC report was an ‘atlas of human suffering (…)
23 February 2023
A rare victory for the ocean threatened by France and Spain
23 February 2023
Victories are rare for the ocean. On 5 February this year, one was secured though, wrestled out from the jaws (…)
21 February 2023
‘Ocean Package’: under the influence of industrial lobbies, the European Commission gives up on saving marine life and the climate
21 February 2023
Press release – Paris, Brussels, 21 February 2023 Two years. Two years that NGOs and citizens have been waiting for (…)
20 February 2023
Serial Fraud in the Industrial Fishing Sector: BLOOM Files a Complaint
20 February 2023
On 16 February 2023, BLOOM filed a complaint with the French Public Prosecutor’s Office of Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer against (…)
10 February 2023
TotalEnergies: Mobilization at the European Parliament
10 February 2023
Paris/Brussels – On 7 February, at the European Parliament, five laureates of the Goldman Environmental Prize* denounced the complicity of (…)
07 February 2023
Five Goldman Environmental Prize Winners urge financial players to stop supporting TotalEnergies’ climate-wrecking strategy
07 February 2023
Brussels / Paris / Berlin / South Africa, 7 February 2023 On the eve of the announcement of TotalEnergies’ annual (…)
06 February 2023
First decisive step to protect tuna in the Indian Ocean despite fierce EU opposition
06 February 2023
Press release – After three days of negotiations under severe tension and abnormal pressure, on Sunday 5 February 2023, coastal (…)
06 February 2023
Sea Bass Fraud in Normandy: Caught in the Act
06 February 2023
The failure to respect regulations, encouraged by an evident lack of inspection of industrial vessels, is causing the destruction of (…)
30 January 2023
BLOOM calls on the EU to support environmental protection in the Indian Ocean
30 January 2023
While two potentially game-changing meetings start today in Mombasa (Kenya) that could determine a clear improvement for the vastly degraded state of health of tuna populations and other marine life in the Indian Ocean, we call on the EU to completely change its stance and adopt the urgent measures tabled by India to protect the marine environment.
12 January 2023
The pillaging of African waters: ground-breaking revelations on European tuna lobbies
12 January 2023
Part 2 of the ‘TunaGate’ investigation series Press release – BLOOM is continuing to dive into the obscure world of tuna (…)
23 December 2022
COP15: other issues addressed in the Kunming-Montreal agreement
23 December 2022
The 195 Member States of the Convention on Biological Diversity have agreed on a number of key issues such as deep sea protection, restoration of degraded ecosystems, advocacy for the rights of indigenous people, the rights of nature, and funding for nature protection in developing countries.
19 December 2022
Mission accomplished at COP15: France has succeeded in sabotaging the global agreement on biodiversity
19 December 2022
France has reached its objective: to ensure that the global agreement intended to put an end to the collapse of the living world, which the 195 Member States of the Convention on Biological Diversity have just adopted in Montreal, is just window-dressing.
16 December 2022
How France is threatening global biodiversity at COP15
16 December 2022
While the whole world’s attention is focused on football, France is trashing the International Conference on Biodiversity in Montreal, making (…)
08 December 2022
French justice system stalls under pressure to halt overfishing
08 December 2022
Environmental NGOs BLOOM, ClientEarth and DMA (Défense des milieux aquatiques, ‘Aquatic Environment Defence’) have called out the French justice system (…)
06 December 2022
France’s sabotage of the COP15 biodiversity summit’s marine protection objectives
06 December 2022
Fake Marine Protected Areas, a real endorsement of industrial fishing: a groundbreaking analysis on maritime protection policy in France from (…)
03 December 2022
BLOOM calls on the French President in Le Monde
03 December 2022
Three days before the COP15 on biodiversity in Canada, BLOOM sends a crucial message for the ocean, biodiversity and the (…)
16 November 2022
BLOOM and Corporate Europe Observatory file a complaint against tuna lobbies Orthongel and Europêche
16 November 2022
Today, marine conservation NGO BLOOM and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) file a formal complaint to the EU Transparency Register against both the French tuna lobby Orthongel and EU-wide industrial fishing lobby Europêche.
14 November 2022
Conflicts of interest and environmental destruction: BLOOM and ANTICOR sound the alarm
14 November 2022
BLOOM and ANTICOR warn of a case of public-private transfer that causes a clear conflict of interest in the tuna fishing sector.
07 November 2022
Victory! France supports a ban on deep-sea mining
07 November 2022
After speaking out against deep-sea mining at an “intimate” event alongside the United Nations conference in Lisbon, President Emmanuel Macron (…)
26 October 2022
From Lisbon to Kingston, France must move from words to action!
26 October 2022
Joint NGO statement – Paris, 26 October 2022 NGOs call upon the French government to “put a real stop to (…)
07 October 2022
BLOOM sues the French government’s MPA definition before the State Council
07 October 2022
Paris, 7 October 2022 – BLOOM challenges Macron’s government before the French State Council regarding an anti-ecological decree that undermines (…)
29 September 2022
Macron abandons the ocean and French fishers in favor of destructive industrial fishing
29 September 2022
It’s a betrayal of the nation’s interests. A betrayal of the promises made to youth on climate. A « dirty (…)
15 September 2022
VICTORY FOR THE OCEAN : 16,000 km2 of fragile ecosystems spared from deep-sea fishing, at long last!
15 September 2022
PRESS RELEASE – Paris, 15 September 2022 It took four years longer than planned, but the European Commission did it. (…)
14 September 2022
Unprecedented poll: 98% of fishers against an industrial fishing technique supported by the French Government
14 September 2022
In view of the “trilogue” negotiations that will start on September 15, 2022, in Brussels, between the three European institutions (…)
25 July 2022
Civil society urges immediate action to protect fragile deep sea ecosystems
25 July 2022
Six years after the adoption of the EU deep-sea fishing Regulation that prohibited bottom trawling below 800 meters in EU (…)
12 July 2022
Victory! The European Parliament just voted to ban demersal seining
12 July 2022
On the 12 of July 2022, BLOOM and the coastal fishers of Northern France closely won (12 votes against 11) (…)
09 July 2022
European Parliament: a vote will oppose supporters of technological hyper-efficiency to defenders of traditional coastal fishing
09 July 2022
On the 12 of July, just before the summer break, a crucial vote will be held for the ocean and (…)
27 June 2022
BLOOM calls on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the massive fraud of Dutch industrial fishing
27 June 2022
As the United Nations’ Ocean Conference opens today in Lisbon, BLOOM requests the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to open a (…)
17 June 2022
WTO fisheries subsidies deal: A historic first step for the ocean, a giant step for transparency
17 June 2022
Paris, 17 June 2022 After a marathon negotiation since Sunday, June 12, and two sleepless nights of tension and extensive (…)
08 June 2022
‘The decree that reveals Emmanuel Macron’s environmental swindle’
08 June 2022
Opinion piece by Claire Nouvian published in the newspaper Le Monde on June 7, 2022 On 8 June, the BLOOM (…)
09 February 2022
One Ocean Summit : Op-ed by Claire Nouvian in Le Monde
09 February 2022
From the empty announcements to the avoidance of fundamental problems, the One Ocean Summit is a failure according the founder (…)
15 July 2021
Analysis of COVID fisheries subsidies: the devastating favouritism of the French government
15 July 2021
A new BLOOM study, published in the scientific journal Marine Policy, highlights the massive and unequal allocation of COVID aid (…)
01 July 2021
Electric fishing: Dutch government’s internal documents confirm years of organised fraud
01 July 2021
Since 2017, BLOOM has rung the alarm bell on the multiple frauds committed by the Netherlands with regards to electric (…)
30 June 2021
Full ban on electric fishing: one cataclysm averted, but more on their way
30 June 2021
The full ban on electric fishing in Europe comes into effect on July 1st. It will help avoid the environmental (…)
22 April 2021
Artisanal fishers and NGOs denounce the illegitimate Danish Seine Agreement in the English Channel
22 April 2021
After having exhausted marine ecosystems in the North Sea with its destructive fishing methods such as electric fishing, the Dutch (…)
25 March 2021
Electric fishing: LIFE and 36 European fishers demand reimbursement of illegal subsidies
25 March 2021
The Netherlands is endeavouring to legalise electric fishing. The Dutch government has submitted its case to Court of Justice of (…)
19 November 2020
Electric fishing broken record plays in a loop
19 November 2020
The ban on electric fishing was so fatal to the Dutch lobby, on the verge of collapsing,[1] that it works (…)
14 October 2020
Electric fishing: #ComplaintFiled, 3 days to act
14 October 2020
Our campaign to ban electric fishing has demonstrated the deep collusion between the Dutch fishing industry and the European Commission: (…)
22 September 2020
Day of mourning for small-scale fishers — Celebration day for the industry
22 September 2020
On 25 September 2020, a historic mobilization for French fishers will take place: the symbolic funeral of the artisanal fishing (…)
15 September 2020
Electric fishing: BLOOM’s new report uncovers the massive Dutch fraud
15 September 2020
In an explosive new report, BLOOM goes one step further in its revelations on the abysmal depth of the Dutch (…)
04 September 2020
Germany and Dutch industrial lobbies: partners in crime
04 September 2020
While the European Commission has finally acknowledged — almost three years after our first complaint — that the Netherlands was (…)
20 July 2020
Electric fishing — New complaint from BLOOM and European Ombudsman’s inquiry into the European Commission’s failure to fulfil its obligations
20 July 2020
Far from being resolved, the electric fishing case continues to reflect the European Union’s serious dysfunctions. While the new Regulation (…)
07 June 2020
Electric fishing: new referral to the European Ombudsman
07 June 2020
Given the Netherlands’ repeated violations of EU law regarding electric fishing and given the European Commission’s failure to respond to (…)
14 May 2020
Der Schwindel mit dem MSC-Siegel
14 May 2020
Die Wahrheit über das größte Fischerei-Logo aufgedeckt BLOOM und seine Co-Autoren von den Universitäten von New York (USA) und Dalhousie (…)
05 May 2020
The sham of the MSC label
05 May 2020
The biggest fishing label’s reality uncovered BLOOM and co-authors from the universities of New York (United States) and Dalhousie (Canada) (…)
20 November 2019
NGOs call on the European Commission to stand firm on his commitment to eliminate harmful subsidies
20 November 2019
BLOOM, along with representatives from environmental NGOs BirdLife, ClientEarth, Seas At Risk and WWF, met on Tuesday 19 November with (…)
20 November 2019
Le ONG invitano la Commissione europea a mantenere l’impegno per eliminare le sovvenzioni dannose
20 November 2019
Martedì 19 novembre, BLOOM e i rappresentanti delle ONG ambientaliste BirdLife, ClientEarth, Seas At Risk e WWF hanno incontrato Virginijus (…)
20 November 2019
Las ONG instan a la Comisión Europea a mantenerse firme en su compromiso de eliminar las subvenciones perjudiciales
20 November 2019
BLOOM y los representantes de la coalición de ONG medioambientales BirdLife, ClientEarth, Seas At Risk y WWF se reunieron el (…)
12 November 2019
European Parliament confirms its will to doom our ocean and fishers
12 November 2019
For its first major vote, the new European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries has decided to reopen the floodgates of overfishing (…)
18 October 2019
LOS MINISTROS DE PESCA EUROPEOS ESCOGEN UN CAMINO QUE VA A CONDENAR EL FUTURO DE LOS PESCADORES Y DE LOS MARES
18 October 2019
Mientras que todas las partes de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) buscan actualmente un consenso sobre una prohibición multilateral (…)
18 October 2019
MINISTRI EUROPEI DELLA PESCA IMBOCCANO UNA STRADA SENZA USCITA PER IL FUTURO DEI PESCATORI E DEL MARE
18 October 2019
Mentre tutte le parti dell’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio (OMC) sono attualmente alla ricerca di un accordo multilaterale per il divieto (…)
18 October 2019
THE EUROPEAN FISHERIES MINISTERS ARE ON A PATH THAT WILL DOOM FISHERS AND OCEAN’S FUTURE
18 October 2019
While all parties to the World Trade Organization (WTO) are currently seeking to agree on a multilateral ban on harmful (…)
17 October 2019
New study: electric fishing destroys the environment
17 October 2019
As the Netherlands just challenged the new EU regulation that prohibits electric fishing at the European Court of Justice, the (…)
01 October 2019
European citizens: make your voices heard on harmful fisheries subsidies!
01 October 2019
Today, Tuesday 1 October 2019, the environmental organisations BirdLife Europe, BLOOM, ClientEarth and Seas At Risk launch an online platform (…)
01 October 2019
Cittadini europei, fate sentire la vostra voce sulle sovvenzioni dannose alla pesca!
01 October 2019
Oggi, martedì 1 ottobre 2019, le organizzazioni ambientaliste BirdLife Europe, BLOOM, ClientEarth e Seas At Risk lanciano una piattaforma (…)
01 October 2019
¡Ciudadanos europeos, expresad ya vuestro rechazo a las subvenciones prejudiciales a la pesca!
01 October 2019
Hoy, martes 1 de octubre de 2019, las organizaciones medioambientales BirdLife Europe, BLOOM, ClientEarth y Seas At Risk lanzan (…)
19 September 2019
Electric fishing: new fraud and a new complaint against the Netherlands
19 September 2019
For the third time, BLOOM has filed a complaint to the European Commission against the Netherlands on 18 September 2019.[1] (…)
09 May 2019
BLOOM AND GILLNETTERS FILE A COMPLAINT FOR ILLEGAL ELECTRIC FISHING IN FRENCH WATERS
09 May 2019
‘Electric fishing’ continues to be a hot topic. On 9 May 2019, BLOOM and 45 professional fishers from Northern France (…)
16 April 2019
Electric fishing definitely buried by European Parliament
16 April 2019
« All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as (…)
16 April 2019
Il Parlamento europeo seppelisce la pesca elettrica
16 April 2019
Ogni verità passa attraverso tre fasi: all’inizio è ridicolizzata, poi è violentemente contrastata, infine la si accetta come evidente. (Arthur (…)
16 April 2019
El Parlamento Europeo entierra la pesca eléctrica
16 April 2019
“Toda verdad desarrolla tres fases. Primero, se la ridiculiza. Después, suscita una fuerte oposición. Ya, por último, se considera que (…)
04 April 2019
Subvenciones a la pesca: votación catastrófica en el Parlamento Europeo
04 April 2019
Hoy, jueves 4 de abril, el Parlamento Europeo ha votado sobre el próximo Fondo Europeo Marítimo y de Pesca (FEMP). (…)
04 April 2019
Sovvenzioni alla pesca, voto catastrofico al Parlamento europeo
04 April 2019
Oggi, giovedì 4 aprile 2019, il Parlamento europeo ha votato il Fondo Europeo per gli Affari Marittimi e la Pesca (…)
04 April 2019
Fisheries subsidies: catastrophic vote at the European Parliament
04 April 2019
Today, on Thursday 4 April 2019, the European Parliament voted on the 2021-2027 European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which (…)
27 March 2019
Europe must stop funding destructive fisheries
27 March 2019
A new study by BLOOM has just been published in the international and peer-reviewed scientific journal Marine Policy concerning the (…)
08 March 2019
Voto desastroso para el océano en el Parlamento Europeo
08 March 2019
La Comisión de Pesca del Parlamento Europeo elige la destrucción del océano en lugar de su protección Cataclismo para el (…)
08 March 2019
Voto disastroso per l’oceano al Parlamento europeo
08 March 2019
La Commissione Pesca del Parlamento europeo sceglie di distruggere il mare invece di proteggerlo Un cataclisma per l’oceano. Oggi, 24 (…)
07 March 2019
Disastrous vote for the ocean in the European Parliament
07 March 2019
The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee chooses the destruction of the ocean rather than its protection Cataclysm for the ocean. Today, (…)
06 March 2019
Seis mil millones de euros ¿para proteger o para destruir el oceano?
06 March 2019
El jueves 7 de marzo de 2019, los 27 miembros de la Comisión de Pesca del Parlamento Europeo tendrán que (…)
06 March 2019
Sei miliardi, per proteggere l’oceano o per distruggerlo?
06 March 2019
Giovedì 7 marzo 2019 i ventisette membri della Commissione per la Pesca (PECH) del Parlamento europeo dovranno pronunciarsi su un (…)
06 March 2019
Six billion euros to protect or to destroy the ocean?
06 March 2019
On Thursday 7 March 2019, the 27 members of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament will have to rule (…)
13 February 2019
VICTORY: electric fishing will be banned in Europe in 2021
13 February 2019
This is a victory for BLOOM and our coalition of small-scale fishers and NGOs although it will occur too late (…)
13 February 2019
VICTORIA: ¡La pesca eléctrica será prohibida en Europa en 2021!
13 February 2019
Esta es una inmensa victoria para BLOOM y para nuestra coalición de pescadores artesanales y ONGs pero que intervendrá demasiado (…)
13 February 2019
VITTORIA: La pesca elettrica diventa illegale in Europa dal 2021! !
13 February 2019
Una grande vittoria per BLOOM e la nostra coalizione di pescatori artigianali e ONG, ma che interverrà troppo tardi, a (…)
12 February 2019
Possible endgame for electric fishing
12 February 2019
The date for the next Trilogue meeting between the European Commission, the EU Council (Member States) and the European Parliament (…)
09 February 2019
Council of the EU takes important step towards full ban on electric fishing
09 February 2019
The news has just been confirmed by several European decision-makers: on Friday 8 February, the Council of the EU took (…)
04 February 2019
La Comisión Europea reconoce por fín la ilegalidad de la pesca electrica
04 February 2019
Gran victoria para BLOOM. Casi año y medio después de nuestra primera denuncia contra los Países Bajos el 2 de (…)
04 February 2019
La Commissione europea riconosce l’illegalità della pesca elettrica
04 February 2019
Una prima, importante vittoria per BLOOM. Quasi un anno e mezzo dopo la prima denuncia – depositata il 2 ottobre (…)
04 February 2019
European Commission acknowledges illegality of electric fishing
04 February 2019
This is the second major victory for BLOOM after the Parliament’s vote for a full ban on electric fishing in (…)
28 January 2019
When the reality of moral corruption at the European Commission surpasses fiction
28 January 2019
In June and again in November 2018, BLOOM and 22 organizations asked the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), a service of (…)
21 January 2019
Countdown per il divieto della pesca elettrica
21 January 2019
A un anno esatto dalla votazione del Parlamento europeo, il 16 gennaio 2018, i negoziati sulla pesca elettrica non hanno (…)
21 January 2019
Recta final para conseguir la prohibición de la pesca eléctrica
21 January 2019
Un año después del voto del Parlamento europeo el 16 de enero del 2018, todavía no se ha alcanzado la (…)
21 January 2019
The countdown is on to prohibit electric fishing
21 January 2019
Exactly one year after the European Parliament voted on 16 January 2018, negotiations on electric fishing have still not resulted (…)
06 November 2018
Illegal subsidies and maladministration by European institutions in the ‘electric fishing’ case: BLOOM turns to the European Ombudsman
06 November 2018
Paris, 6 November 2018 While European negotiations are moving towards an illegitimate reauthorization of electric fishing to the detriment of (…)
16 October 2018
NEW MOBILIZATION FROM CHEFS AGAINST ELECTRIC FISHING
16 October 2018
The chefs of the “Relais & Châteaux” network, who, following chef Christophe Coutanceau’s manifesto, became widely mobilized[1] last January alongside (…)
05 October 2018
Electric fishing: the worst was avoided
05 October 2018
Paris, 5 October 2018 The European “trilogue” negotiations on electric fishing nearly adopted an outrageous compromise on October 4 that (…)
04 October 2018
Scandalous denial of democracy in the European negotiations on electric fishing
04 October 2018
This morning, negotiations on the Technical Measures Regulation, which will decide the fate of electric fishing in Europe, resumed after (…)
02 October 2018
Electric trawlers in a marine reserve: the last straw
02 October 2018
A new analysis by BLOOM, using satellite data from the “Global Fishing Watch” platform, reveals the presence of numerous Dutch (…)
24 September 2018
Electric fishing: former jurist at the European Commission confirms scandals revealed by BLOOM
24 September 2018
Thunderclap in Brussels: while upcoming European negotiations, suspended for the summer, threaten to legalise fishing with electricity, a former jurist (…)
18 June 2018
Unprecedented EU-wide mobilization of fishers against electric fishing
18 June 2018
#FishersResist Today, small-scale and traditional fishers across the EU are mobilizing in ports in a simultaneous action of resistance to (…)
18 June 2018
Ongekende EU-brede mobilisatie van vissers tegen elektrische visserij
18 June 2018
#FishersResist Vandaag mobiliseren kleinschalige en traditionele vissers van verschillende landen zich in havens voor een gelijktijdige actie van verzet; een (…)
13 June 2018
Fishers and environmental organisations call on the European anti-fraud office to open a formal investigation about electric fishing
13 June 2018
Today, 23 environmental NGOs and organisations representing fishers from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK filed a formal request (…)
04 June 2018
Wetenschappelijk offensief om elektrisch vissen te redden
04 June 2018
Verdedigers van elektrische visserij stellen wetenschappelijk schijnverslag op in wanhopige poging om volledig verbod te voorkomen Parijs, 4 juni 2018 (…)
04 June 2018
Scientific offensive to save electric fishing
04 June 2018
Electric fishing defenders line up scientific ducks in desperate attempt to avoid full ban Science has decidedly played a central (…)
02 May 2018
Electric fishing: will artisanal fishers be betrayed?
02 May 2018
While the European trilogue that must decide the fate of electric fishing in Europe has not yet settled on the (…)
23 April 2018
Claire Nouvian winner of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize
23 April 2018
San Francisco, 23 April 2018 BLOOM is proud to announce that its Founder and Board Chair, Claire Nouvian, will be (…)
16 April 2018
Electric fishing: BLOOM files a second complaint against The Netherlands
16 April 2018
Today, BLOOM has filed a second complaint against the Netherlands, because this EU Member State does not respect the EU (…)
11 April 2018
New study reveals massive under-reporting of deep-sea fish catch
11 April 2018
A new study published today in Frontiers in Marine Science used the data gathered by the Sea Around Us project (…)
29 March 2018
Press Release: Fisheries subsidies negotiations back on track at the WTO
29 March 2018
World Trade Organization appoints new chair to achieve multilateral agreement on harmful fisheries subsidies by 2019 Press Release Paris, 29 (…)
16 January 2018
Victory! The European Parliament voted in favour of a full ban on electric fishing
16 January 2018
The European Parliament adopted this morning with a very large majority (402 to 232) a full and definitive ban on (…)
14 January 2018
The European Parliament under high tension
14 January 2018
PRESS RELEASE, Brussels/Strasbourg After the suspension of parliamentary activity during the Christmas period, the controversy over electric fishing has ensured (…)
10 January 2018
Top European chefs take electric pulse fishing off the menu
10 January 2018
Chef Christopher Coutanceau – Maison Coutanceau** in La Rochelle, inspired by his love of fine products and by his membership (…)
08 January 2018
Electric fishing: new revelations on a European scandal
08 January 2018
As the European Parliament prepares to vote on whether to restore the 1998 ban on electric fishing or to authorise (…)
13 December 2017
India Sabotages Twenty Years of WTO Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations
13 December 2017
Final version after WTO official statement – Buenos Aires, 13 December 2017 BLOOM and the Varda Group, which have been (…)
05 December 2017
Will the WTO succeed to bring world fisheries to sustainability?
05 December 2017
Trade Ministers will have the final word on a fisheries subsidies agreement at the Buenos Aires WTO Ministerial Conference next (…)
22 November 2017
The European Parliament opens the door to the expansion of electric fishing
22 November 2017
Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee voted for a possible massive expansion of electric pulse fishing in Europe but a (…)
02 October 2017
Pulse fishing: BLOOM files a complaint against The Netherlands
02 October 2017
Today, BLOOM formally filed a complaint against The Netherlands through the European Commission complaint form for having illegally granted derogations (…)
22 September 2017
Dutch advertising standards authority confirms Princes are “misleading consumers”
22 September 2017
Press release by On The Hook September 22 2017 Today the Dutch Advertising Code Committee has found that Princes is “misleading (…)
09 June 2017
UN ADOPTS CALL TO END HARMFUL FISHERIES SUBSIDIES
09 June 2017
Press Release New York 9 June, 2017 The UN adopts a clear call for action to eliminate harmul fisheries subsidies (…)
09 June 2017
39 NGOs worldwide call to halt deep-sea mining
09 June 2017
9 June 2017, New York, US Today, at the Ocean Conference of the United Nations, Seas At Risk, supported by its 34 (…)
01 June 2017
Taxpayers’money should go to ocean protection – not destruction
01 June 2017
#OceanAction21922 BLOOM commits to helping governments categorize and analyze their fisheries subsidies data THE UN OCEAN CONFERENCE, NEW YORK, (…)
02 March 2017
French Environment Minister calls for a true European ban on pulse fishing
02 March 2017
Paris, 2 March 2017 BLOOM welcomes the position of the French Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, Mrs (…)
10 November 2016
The allowable catch of endangered deep-sea species must be zero, say conservationists
10 November 2016
Brussels 10th November 2016: Marine conservation experts call on the European Council of Fisheries Ministers to prohibit fishing for (…)
30 June 2016
Europe bans deep-sea bottom trawling, at long, long last!
30 June 2016
Brussels, June 30th 2016 After four years of legislative procedures, endless upstream lobbying by the fishing industry to try to (…)
28 November 2015
El Telefoniño HOTLINE OCEAN CLIMAT 24h/24
28 November 2015
24/24 speedy scientific information and fact-checking to understand everything about the role of the ocean in the regulation of the (…)
17 June 2015
Deep-sea fish caught by French trawlers off Scotland listed as « endangered » by the IUCN
17 June 2015
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published the first comprehensive assessment of the state of health (…)
21 January 2015
Reforming EU deep-sea fishing regulation: A Net Win for the UK
21 January 2015
Wednesday, 21 January: Today MPs from across party divides have joined with leading UK marine scientists and NGOs to (…)
19 January 2015
Intermarché’s betrayal on deep-sea fishing
19 January 2015
A year ago, after having bitterly fought and sabotaged the European Parliament’s vote on the ban of deep-sea bottom (…)
19 November 2014
Ban deep-sea bottom trawling? It is still possible!
19 November 2014
Today, a gathering orchestrated by BLOOM in collaboration with several NGOs including an international coalition of over 70 organizations (…)
03 October 2014
European Fisheries Ministers must not repeat past mistakes for deep-sea fish quotas
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 (…)
08 September 2014
LUSH staff across Europe wear body paint to tell the story of deep-sea destruction
08 September 2014
Non-profit organization BLOOM and LUSH Cosmetics campaign for a historic EU ban on deep-sea bottom trawling From 8th – 14th (…)
14 July 2014
The publication of previously unreleased data reveals that the French government has hidden the truth about its deep-sea fishing activity
14 July 2014
France’s position on the reform of the European deep-sea fishing regulation appears unjustifiable in light of this new information On (…)
14 July 2014
EUROPEAN STREET-ART STANDS UP AGAINST DEEP-SEA BOTTOM TRAWLING
14 July 2014
TODAY, FAMOUS STREET ARTISTS ARE PRODUCING SPECTACULAR PIECES of ART IN SEVERAL EUROPEAN CAPITALS TO CALL FOR THE BAN OF (…)
27 June 2014
ISSEY MIYAKE and BLOOM Association raise awareness in the fashion world to the fragile beauty of the deep oceans
27 June 2014
Amazed by the extraordinary world he found in the book ABYSSES by Claire Nouvian, designer Yusuke Takahashi used the fantastic (…)
25 March 2014
More than 20,000 outraged French citizens email François Hollande
25 March 2014
Paris, 25 March 2014 Since March 20th, close to 21,000 indignant French citizens have sent the President (…)
28 February 2014
Seafood traceability: low fraud rates in France
28 February 2014
Following the recent crises that rocked the meat industry in Europe, BLOOM, Oceana, researchers from the French National Institute of (…)
31 January 2014
NGOs welcome commitment by Intermarché’s fleet
31 January 2014
31 January 2014 Following the controversial outcome of the 10th December European Parliament vote on the phase out of (…)
03 December 2013
CASINO SUPERMARKET LISTENS TO THE FRENCH, THEIR PRESIDENT DOESN’T
03 December 2013
71% of French people want FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE to support the ban on deep-sea trawling. French supermarket, Casino, WITHDRAWS deep-sea species (…)
28 November 2013
Ifremer withdraws its scientific support to the deep-sea fishing lobbies
28 November 2013
With just 15 days to go until the European Parliament votes in plenary on the deep-sea trawling ban, the industrial (…)
22 November 2013
Deep-sea fishing : No threat to employment, an opportunity even
22 November 2013
A press release by BLOOM and OCEANA Short of arguments, the industrial conglomerates involved in deep-sea fishing, lead (…)
21 November 2013
The “truth” of Intermarché on deep-sea fishing … And that of Monsanto on GMOs too?
21 November 2013
BLOOM, Greenpeace and Oceana press release While the exceptional mobilization of French citizens against destructive deep-sea fishing, including that (…)
04 November 2013
The future of the deep ocean will be decided in Plenary by the European Parliament
04 November 2013
After months of dark political tactics to try to jeopardize the deep-sea fishing regulation, the Members of the European (…)
04 November 2013
Today on behalf of 500 million Europeans, 25 MEPs will vote what the future of the deep oceans will be
04 November 2013
This afternoon, the 25 members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries will vote on behalf of more than 500 (…)
02 November 2013
Richard Branson : Deep-sea fishing regulations and a crucial European vote
02 November 2013
The future of the deep ocean and its ecosystem depends on the EU leading the way on sustainable fishing and (…)
24 October 2013
They say “NO” to the destruction of the Deep Ocean
24 October 2013
Paris, 24 October 2013 Actors Edward Norton and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, business man Richard Branson, buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, (…)
17 October 2013
Deep-sea regulation stuck in Parliament
17 October 2013
The Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament announced this morning that the vote on the deep-sea fishing regulation will (…)
09 October 2013
Wave of change to protect deep ocean? First vote imminent at the European Parliament
09 October 2013
After 15 months of multiple hearings and delays, the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament has scheduled a vote (…)
04 October 2013
Richard Branson, Deep-Sea ambassador for BLOOM
04 October 2013
While in Paris , Richard Branson confirmed with Claire Nouvian during a private meeting his commitment alongside BLOOM and the (…)
27 September 2013
Outcome of the French Environmental Conference
27 September 2013
DEEP-SEA FISHING AND SUBSIDIES ON THE AGENDA The French Fisheries Minister Frédéric Cuvillier had tried as hard as possible to (…)
27 September 2013
IFREMER: the official alibi of deep-sea fishing industrial lobbies
27 September 2013
With an infamous political position paper, scientifically unfounded, the Ifremer has become the official alibi of lobbies and (…)
16 September 2013
International mobilization for the deep ocean
16 September 2013
Politicians, scientists, fishermen and NGOs from around the world are mobilizing today to let the media and policy makers know (…)
08 July 2013
France stifles evidence of its fishing sector’s economic disaster and tries to impose it on the EU
08 July 2013
On 4 July 2013, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur revealed a confidential report of the Court of Auditors on (…)
28 March 2013
Spi Ouest France Intermarché Regatta: a greenwashing operation for the destructive fisheries of Intermarché Group
28 March 2013
On March 29 in La Trinité-sur-Mer the regatta “Spi Ouest France Intermarché” begins and Intermarché, the French leader in industrial (…)
22 March 2013
Industry attempts to sink deep-sea fishing regulation at the European Parliament
22 March 2013
While The EU Parliament Environment Committee, overwhelmingly voted in favour of total reform of the deep-sea fishing Regulation yesterday (58 for, (…)
19 March 2013
Employment: the last joker of the French deep-sea fishing industry
19 March 2013
BLOOM Association published today a new estimate of jobs generated by the deep-sea sector in France, a very small sector since (…)
14 February 2013
How France intends to dictate EU-wide regulation to save a single, unprofitable but heavily subsidized deep-sea fleet
14 February 2013
Since 2009, despite legal obligations, the fishing fleet of French supermarket chain Intermarché has failed to publish its accounts. Intermarché’s (…)
29 November 2012
The double dealing of an impartial scientist
29 November 2012
Exactly 90 days after being appointed for a three year-term in the most influential scientific body advising the European (…)
28 November 2012
BLOOM reveals Intermarche’s poisonous strategy and their collusion with an IFREMER researcher to ensure favorable scientific backing
28 November 2012
A researcher for the French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), appointed for a three year term at (…)
22 November 2012
THE HIDEOUS PRICE OF BEAUTY: COSMETICS INDUSTRY DRIVES DEEP-SEA SHARK EXTINCTIONS
22 November 2012
BLOOM conducted a survey on the use of shark liver oil in cosmetics and it revealed that the cosmetics industry (…)
02 October 2012
Deep trouble for deep-water species
02 October 2012
A new study reveals severe mismanagement of European deep-water stocks, according to this week’s online version of the journal Ocean & (…)
10 May 2011
100% of French citizens support destructive fishing practices
10 May 2011
In collaboration with the Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme, Greenpeace and Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Such are (…)