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European Parliament Committee on Fisheries. Managed by Raquel Lopes. RTs ≠ endorsement.
🎯European Parliament proposals to rise to the🇪🇺 #fisheries sector energy transition challenge:
➡️Renewal schemes
➡️More funding
➡️Energy audits to fishing vessels
➡️Changes to the current legislative framework

Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)

👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/ftBXBw
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📢MEPs will meet next Wednesday to debate

🔹EFCA's work programme 2026 w/@susan-steele.bsky.social
🔹Application into 🇪🇺law of measures adopted by #RFMOs @Thomas Bajada
🔹Report on simplification w/Commissioner Costas Kadis
🔹Fishing quotas for the Mediterranean 2026

🎦Watch live: link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Yesterday, #EPlenary debated the fishing quotas for 2026 & the challenges 🇪🇺EU fishers face:
🔹depleted stocks
🔹aged fishing fleet
🔹insufficient funding of the sector #EMFAF
🔹difficult working conditions
🔹unstable income

🎦Watch the debate again:
www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/v...
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📢⚡️At the end of the afternoon, MEPs will debate @europarl.europa.eu:

🎣Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of the fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities

🎦Watch live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM

📢 EP policy department published an in-depth analysis on

🔴"Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea - The shift to ecosystem reference points (ERPs)"🐟

👉Full briefing here: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

#Research4Committees
[Publication] Fisheries management in the Baltic Sea. The shift to ecosystem reference points (ERPs)
Publication: November 2025 Download: English Author: Christian MÖLLMANN, University of Hamburg, Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainabi…
research4committees.blog
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🚨In a 🆕report adopted today @pech.europarl.europa.eu,
MEPs are proposing fleet renewal schemes, with national and EU funding and private investor support, for a successful green energy transition🛥️

➕19
➖ 3
🟰 3
Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)

👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/YkgTF6
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌊 #BalticSea @pech.europarl.europa.eu agenda

🔹Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation
👉Presentation of study: link.europa.eu/Xdw94M

🔹The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea
👉Consideration of Isabella Lovin's draft report: link.europa.eu/MqXC98

🎦Watch again: link.europa.eu/VbFcj9
europarl.europa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Fisheries Committee
Although the #BalticSea multiannual plan helped reduce fishing pressure, it has not succeeded in restoring key stocks above sustainable biomass levels

🔎 link.europa.eu/Kvq4wp 

@pech.europarl.europa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
At the #GFCMSession, MEPs Thomas Bajada and Nora Junco Garcia followed progress on a new fit-for-purpose compliance scheme that guarantees a level playing field for all fleets in #Mediterranean.

@pech.europarl.europa.eu Committee Chair Carmen Crespo Díaz met w/ GFCM Secretary General Miguel Bernal.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🚨Tuesday @pech.europarl.europa.eu
🗳️Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries

Debates
🕙European fisheries and aquaculture statistics
🕓Multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea & ways forward
🕔Evaluation of the Baltic Sea Multiannual plan Regulation
🔴Public Hearing👇

🎦Live link.europa.eu/JnHQy8
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🎣MEPs Nora Junco Garcia and Thomas Bajada are in Málaga🇪🇸 for the 48th session of General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.

@pech.europarl.europa.eu participants in #GFCMSession are working for better management of #Mediterranean and #BlackSea #fisheries and #aquaculture.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📢 In-depth analysis on "Women in fisheries🌊 - State of play and progress on gender equity in the EU"🇪🇺

👉Read more here: bit.ly/4nFMbEY

Analysis from EP Policy Department

#research #Fisheries #EUFisheries #GenderEquality
[Publication] Women in fisheries – State of play and progress on gender equity in the EU
Publication: October 2025 Download: English Authors: Jannyna MIRES-ROJAS (Trainee), Irina POPESCU and Marcus BREUER (Research administrators) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Women play a crucial but often overlo…
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
📢How will the Commission’s proposal for European fisheries and aquaculture statistics regulation address the shortcomings of the current European fisheries statistics framework?

🎣Briefing from @ep-eprs.bsky.social

👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/9FkM4D
European fisheries and aquaculture statistics framework – implementation takeaways | Think Tank | European Parliament
European fisheries and aquaculture statistics framework – implementation takeaways
link.europa.eu
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎣MEPs wrapped up their visit to Bay of Biscay.

@pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs met w/ representatives from
👉the fishing🇫🇷🇪🇸, aquaculture and processing sectors &
👉regional and local authorities
w/ whom they discussed
🔹the impact of 🇪🇺rules on fisher's work &
🔹the Commission proposal to cut #EMFAF funds
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🎣MEPs visiting the Bay of Biscay met with Antton Curutcharry, mayor of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry 🇫🇷

They also visited the Ispéguy aquaculture farm and fish processing workshop, and spoke to representatives of the fish farming industry
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🛥️On their visit to the Bay of Biscay, @pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs visited the harbour and a fish auction hall in Ciboure.

In conversations with local fishermen, representatives and regional authorities from 🇫🇷🇪🇸, they discussed current issues in fisheries management

@idoiamendia.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🎣Six members from the @pech.europarl.europa.eu,
, led by @erics40.bsky.social, will visit the Bay of Biscay, from 27 to 30 October, to learn about the challenges facing French🇫🇷 and Spanish🇪🇸 fishers.

👉More details in EN: link.europa.eu/8XwGK6
👉More details in FR: link.europa.eu/PWqrWc
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France: Parliament delegation to assess fisheries challenges | News | European Parliament
Six members from the Committee on Fisheries will visit the Bay of Biscay from 27 to 30 October to learn about the challenges facing French and Spanish fishers.
link.europa.eu
October 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Thursday (9.45-12.30), @pech.europarl.europa.eu debates:

🔹The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries & aquaculture
Rapporteur Željana Zovko (EPP, HR)
🔹Fishing opportunities for the Baltic Sea 2026
🔹Reporting from the mission to Greenland

🔴Watch live: link.europa.eu/kJTnfJ
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🎣Recent surveys suggest growing consumer interest in knowing the environmental impact of the fishery products they buy.

European Parliament suggests improving labelling, control & standards.

👉Learn more from @ep-eprs.bsky.social ⤵️
🔗https://link.europa.eu/QRXvh8
October 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Wednesday, @europarl.europa.eu confirmed tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire:
32 🇪🇺 vessels can continue to fish tuna in 🇨🇮 waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following Parliament’s vote

➕520
➖ 97
🟰 12

Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)

Details ⤵️
link.europa.eu/vVmpyT
Parliament confirms tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire | News | European Parliament
Thirty-two EU vessels can continue to fish tuna in Côte d’Ivoire’s waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following Parliament’s approval.
www.europarl.europa.eu
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🗳️Parliament confirms tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire

32 🇪🇺 vessels can continue to fish tuna in 🇨🇮’s waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following @europarl.europa.eu vote (+ 520/ - 97/ = 12)

Rapporteur Ton Diepeveen (PfE, NL)

👉Read more here: link.europa.eu/vVmpyT
Parliament confirms tuna fisheries protocol between EU and Côte d’Ivoire | News | European Parliament
Thirty-two EU vessels can continue to fish tuna in Côte d’Ivoire’s waters, up to 6,100 tonnes per year until 2029, following Parliament’s approval.
www.europarl.europa.eu
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Fisheries Committee
"Greenland needs the European Union, and the European Union needs Greenland." 🇬🇱🤝🇪🇺

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen spoke at the European Parliament today, emphasising the potential of broader and stronger cooperation with the EU.

Read more: link.europa.eu/wwffTf
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚨Starting at 14.30, hearing @pech.europarl.europa.eu
"Contribution of EU fisheries and aquaculture to food security and healthy diets in the context of climate change adaptation"

👉Programme: bit.ly/3Vrm09h
👉Watch live: bit.ly/46GFkVk

Moderators: Francisco Millán Mon and
@nicogcasares.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🚨📢Tomorrow, @pech.europarl.europa.eu

🔹European Ocean Pact w/ Commissioner Costas Kadis
🔹Funding of fisheries policies under the next MFF
🇪🇺🇮🇸EU-Iceland memorandum of understanding
🔹2025 Review of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources

🗒️ Agenda: link.europa.eu/qvmcwP
🎥Live: bit.ly/3JT8CG1
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢Last day in Greenland!
@pech.europarl.europa.eu MEPs concluded their mission to assess the impact of the 🇪🇺-🇬🇱 sustainable fisheries agreement which included meetings with
🔹Greenlandic administration
🔹private companies
🔹fishermen associations and professional organisations
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM