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This OECD policy brief provides an overview of pressing fisheries policy issues and makes recommendations for policy makers to ensure sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture production, to reduce illegal...

Around two-thirds of assessed fish stocks reported in the OECD Review of Fisheries 2022 are in good health, but nearly one in five do not meet sustainability...

Over USD 10 billion in public money goes to support fisheries every year. Investment in assessing and ensuring fish stock health is beneficial to the industry and contributes...

This book encompasses a broad range of natural resource sectors, with discrete chapters on water, land, forestry, fisheries, mining, petroleum and agriculture. Given this broad range of areas...

Highlights: How digitalisation drives effective policy-making in fisheries is poorly understood. We test effects of real-time fisheries monitoring on development and management objectives. Digital adoption...

The EU fisheries and aquaculture products (FAPs) market is largely dependent on external producers. Some of the imports entering the EU market come from countries with lenient regulations. This study...

Feedback, a UK and Netherlands based organisation campaigning for sustainable and ethical food, has published a report linking the Norwegian salmon farming industry to poor nutrition and livelihood...

This study provides an overview of the current state of play in selectivity developments in EU fisheries by i) outlining the existing technical (gear) and tactical selectivity measures to reduce unwanted...

This 2023 special edition of the GFCM’s flagship publication, The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, updates statistics and figures on the status and management of fisheries in the region and includes, for the first...

This study is the third in a series of three research papers, prepared for a PECH Committee Workshop. It explores how initiatives within the European Green Deal may impact...