NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing limits for 2024

A group of environmental NGOs has called on the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to lead the EU in setting 2024 fishing limits based on scientific advice rather than exceeding it. The letter highlights failures in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) to end overfishing by 2020 and notes specific crises in the Baltic Sea and Northeast Atlantic. The NGOs argue that overfishing undermines marine biodiversity and the capacity of oceans to mitigate climate change, urging the adoption of an ecosystem-based approach, the elimination of bycatch, and increased transparency in decision-making.

• The European Union has failed to meet its legal requirement to end overfishing in all its waters and missed the 2020 deadline for harvesting all stocks sustainably, with many limits still set above scientific recommendations.
• Specific regional fisheries remain in critical condition: overfished populations in the Baltic Sea are not improving, and 26% of assessed stocks in Northeast Atlantic waters continue to be subject to overfishing.
• Overfishing and destructive fishing practices have been the primary drivers of marine biodiversity loss for 40 years, which reduces the ability of fish and wildlife to withstand and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
• The NGOs recommend that the EU set catch limits below the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) single-stock advice for forage fish and abundant stocks in mixed fisheries to protect vulnerable species and ecosystem needs.

APA

ClientEarth (2023). NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing limits for 2024. https://www.clientearth.org/media/pn0jnb2c/20230914-ngo-letter-to-spanish-eu-council-presidency-on-tacs-for-2024.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing limits for 2024. 2023. https://www.clientearth.org/media/pn0jnb2c/20230914-ngo-letter-to-spanish-eu-council-presidency-on-tacs-for-2024.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{clientearth2023ngos, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing limits for 2024}}, publisher = {ClientEarth}, year = {2023}, month = sep, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/pn0jnb2c/20230914-ngo-letter-to-spanish-eu-council-presidency-on-tacs-for-2024.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }