Public consultation - Fishing opportunities for 2015 under the Common Fisheries Policy

Fishing opportunities for 2015 under the Common Fisheries Policy

Public consultation

Title

Consultation on fishing opportunities for 2015 under the Common Fisheries Policy

Policy fields

Fisheries

Target groups

All citizens and organisations can contribute to this consultation. Contributions are particularly sought from citizens and organisations with links to, or interests in fish or fisheries and the coastal and marine environment.

Period of consultation

From 26.06.2014 to 30.09.2014

Objective of the consultation

Allow all European citizens to express an opinion on the way in which levels of fishing effort and fishing quotas are set according to the new Common Fisheries Policy and in relation to scientific advice about sustainable fishing.

How to submit your contribution

You can reply to the consultation in any EU official language – Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish or Swedish.

Individuals (responding in a personal capacity)

• E-mail a file – individuals

Public authority

• E-mail a file - public authority

Organisations (association, administration, etc.)

• E-mail a file – organisations

Transparency register for organisations

In the interests of transparency, organisations (NGOs, trade associations and businesses etc.) are invited to provide the public with relevant information about themselves by registering in the EU transparency register and subscribing to its code of conduct.

• If you are a Registered organisation, please indicate the name and address of your organisation and your Register ID number on the first page of your contribution. Your contribution will then be considered as representing the views of your organisation.
• If your organisation is not registered, you can register now. Then return to this page to submit your contribution as a registered organisation.
• Responses from non-registered organisations will be published separately.

Contributions will be published on this website under your name or the name of your organisation – unless you object that revealing your identity would damage your legitimate interests. In that case the contribution may be published anonymously.

More on this consultation

Consultation document 

Contact details

Responsible department
European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Directorate MARE.A2

E-mail
MARE-CONSULTATION-ON-FISHING-OPPORTUNITIES@ec.europa.eu 

Postal address
European Commission
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
J79 01/21, B-1049
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium

Number of responses received 

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Results of consultation and next steps

The public consultation offers citizens and stakeholders the opportunity to provide input to the Commission at an early stage of policy making. The Commission services plan to make the comments accessible on this website.

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Mining at deep sea - should the fishing industry be worried?

The global demand for the minerals needed to sustain much of the equipment we take for granted like mobile phones and cameras is seeing countries look to the oceans of the planet as land based supplies begin to dwindle. China presently supplies 90% of some key minerals, like those that have allowed the creation of batteries for phones - as a commodity this gives the country huge bargaining power as business and social use makes mobile technology almost indispensable in a modern world.

Here is an extract from a recent article from Down to Earth:

The vast repository of minerals, including the precious cobalt, zinc, manganese and rare earth materials that are needed for smart phones, laptops and hybrid cars, are present in three forms of ore—polymetallic manganese nodules that remain strewn across the ocean floor; cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts that cover the seamounts; and massive polymetallic sulphide deposits around hydrothermal vents (see map). These vents are cracks in volcanic areas of the ocean floor through which seeps iron- and sulphur-rich magma. As these minerals meet cold bottom water, they precipitate, creating high-grade deposits. Typically, an ore from seabed deposit is seven times enriched with minerals than that mined from land. This beguiles governments who are fast running out of reserves on land.
Countries are delving deeper into the ocean to explore its mineral wealth. The deposits on the ocean floor are enormous and the ecology of this largest habitat on earth, unexplored. The high seas are also global common property that demand an equitable distribution of their riches. How will deep sea mining impact the ecology and shape the mechanism to share common resources? 

Read the full story here from a report by Richard Mahapatra and Anupam Chakravartty

As possible Scottish independence looms......

How will Scotland’s fishing quotas be determined following independence?

Answer: Following a vote for independence, the Scottish Government will enter into negotiations with the rest of the UK and with the EU institutions to fully define our fishing rights and other key issues.

At present, Scotland’s fishing opportunities are provided for in a concordat among the UK nations, which gives Scotland a share of UK quotas. It will be in the interests of both Scotland and the rest of the UK to agree an appropriate and fair set of final allocations so that the normal fishing practices of each nation can continue unaffected.

Russian trade ban: Commissioner Damanaki ready to support EU fisheries sector with financial help, quota flexibility

In the light of Russia’s trade ban on certain fisheries products which hit the European fisheries sector this summer, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, has today reassured the Council and the European Parliament that the European Commission stands ready to support the European fisheries sector. In a letter addressed to Italian Minister Maurizio Martina and the Chair of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee, Alain Cadec, Commissioner Damanaki outlined that the EU can provide financial support to the sector as well as the possibility of shifting unused fishing quotas to 2015.

In her letter, Commissioner Damanaki called upon the EU governments concerned by the ban to make use “as quickly as possible” of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which can provide financial help to producer organisations who are unable to sell their products to Russia. This aid enables them to store the unsold products until new markets have been found. She underlined that no approval by the European Commission is necessary to unlock these storage funds.

Commissioner Damanaki also pointed to flexibility rules which allow Member States to carry over up to 10% of their fishing quotas to the following year. She underlined that, given the current circumstances, she has instructed her services to examine the possibility go beyond the 10% quota flexibility. The Commissioner said that she could take a positive stance on this option, under the condition that scientific examination confirms that such a proposal would not undermine long term sustainability.

Background

Following Russia’s announcement on 7 August to ban imports of certain fisheries products from the European Union, the European Commission is working closely with Member States authorities to gather evidence on the impact of the Russian trade measures in the fisheries sector and to outline the available support to the sectors affected by the ban. The fisheries products affected by the ban are live, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine and smoked fish, molluscs and crustaceans. The main Member States exporting these products to Russia in 2013 were Denmark, Latvia, UK, Ireland, Estonia, Spain and France.

In 2013, the total export value of the banned EU fisheries products was close to EUR 144 million, which represents 2% of total value of the EU's fish and aquaculture annual product.

Russia is the EU's 6th export market for fisheries products. In 2013, EU exports of fisheries products to Russia represented 5%, or EUR 199 million, of total EU fisheries exports. In 2013, fisheries products represented 0.2% of the EU’s overall exports to Russia.

Long live the street food revolution! #eatmorefish

viva la streetfood revolution from SWFishUk on Vimeo.

Made in collaboration with the community. We're bringing good food back into the city. Over the last four months @SWFishUK has been involved in Exeter Street Food - There is such a good vibe and bunch of stall owners that we came together to make this video to help get the streetfood revolution out to the people of exeter.

- Story board, filming and editing by SWFish.
- Script written by Two Coast County and SWFish.
- Location and stalls coordinated by Exeter Street Food.

We'd like to thank all friends, stall owners and our customers for taking part in this video because together we are stronger - bringing good food back to the city.

Special thanks to Lissi Dancefloor Disaster for use of their song "Oh My God" we're all connected and all believers of creative commons for artistic copyright.

Keep following the cat @ lissi.cat/

And Ben Pascoe @ learningsurfphotography.com/ for use of footage.