{"id":5658,"date":"2021-01-14T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greens-efa.eu\/dossier\/?page_id=5658"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:47:41","slug":"more-fish-in-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greens-efa.eu\/dossier\/more-fish-in-the-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE FISH IN THE SEAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
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Why do we need more fish in EU seas\n?<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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In the\nEuropean Union, fishing fleets have been managed by the Common Fisheries Policy\n(CFP) for almost 50 years. However, from the mid 1990s fish populations started\nto severely decline and trends in overfishing became alarming. Then, the CFP\nstarted progressively to integrate sustainability as an objective and, in 2013,  to set targets to maintain fish populations\nat sustainable levels. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Despite\nsome progress in the last decade, today most of the fisheries resources and\nmarine ecosystems are in a bad condition.The depletion of fish stocks has not\nonly a major impact on marine biodiversity, but also on the future of fishers\nand fisheries whose income depends on these resources.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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There is an\nurgent need for more ambitious measures that would benefit EU society and\nnature as a whole. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The EU did not meet its targets <\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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2020 was\nsupposed to be the year of biodiversity at the international level. It was also\nsupposed to be the year when good environmental status of EU seas was to be\nachieved and when all fish stocks were to be exploited at sustainable levels.\nThese targets are part of the european legislation but EU action has been\nslowed down by short term interests and a lack of progress in the\nimplementation process. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The situation of EU seas is grim<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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In the last\ndecades, there were some improvements for fish populations in the Atlantic Ocean\nwhere the CFP is starting to bear fruit. Scientists estimate that around 38% of\nthe stocks assessed are overexploited. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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But the\nsituation is very worrying in the Mediterranean Sea, where more than 80% of\nfish stocks are overexploited. Let us also be reminded that these figures are\ncalculated species by species without taking into account marine ecosystems in\ntheir entirety, and only where the respective scientific assessments are\navailable. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The\nEuropean Court of Auditors confirmed this trend: EU action in the past decade\nwas insufficient for the recovery of marine ecosystems and habitats. In\ngeneral, levels of pollution are alarming and climate change has growing\nimpacts on our oceans. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\t

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