NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing opportunities for 2025

The document is a letter to the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture calling for a precautionary, ecosystem-based approach to setting 2025 fishing limits. The NGOs argue that the EU has failed its legal obligation to end overfishing by 2020 and that current scientific advice does not fully account for ecosystem integrity. They demand catch limits below ICES and STECF advice, full implementation of the western Mediterranean multiannual plan, the elimination of bycatch and discards, and increased transparency in decision-making to ensure long-term ocean health and climate mitigation capacity.

• The EU has failed to meet its legal requirement to end overfishing in all its waters and missed the 2020 deadline to harvest all stocks sustainably, with many fishing limits remaining above scientific advice.
• Overfishing persists in the Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas, where 30% and 61% of assessed stocks respectively continue to be subject to overfishing.
• Current scientific advice for fishing opportunities, such as Total Allowable Catches (TACs), is insufficient because it is not designed to fully protect ecosystem dynamics and integrity.
• The NGOs recommend setting catch limits below the single-stock advice provided by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) to maximize ecosystem health and the ocean's capacity to mitigate climate change.
• The letter calls for the full implementation of the western Mediterranean multiannual plan (West Med MAP) to achieve sustainable exploitation rates by 2025, including the adoption of safeguard measures and fishing effort restrictions.

APA

ClientEarth (2024). NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing opportunities for 2025. https://www.clientearth.org/media/14shxahn/ngo-letter-to-hungarian-eu-council-presidency-on-fos-for-2025-final.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing opportunities for 2025. 2024. https://www.clientearth.org/media/14shxahn/ngo-letter-to-hungarian-eu-council-presidency-on-fos-for-2025-final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{clientearth2024ngos, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{NGOs call on you to set sustainable, ecosystem-based fishing opportunities for 2025}}, publisher = {ClientEarth}, year = {2024}, month = sep, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/14shxahn/ngo-letter-to-hungarian-eu-council-presidency-on-fos-for-2025-final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }