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The RecFishing Forum Newsletter

  • Hydropower
  • Sea Bass
  • Meet the Anglers: Italy
Hydropower

Hydropower energy is not a perfect solution for nature

An event organised in the European Parliament shows how hydroelectricity is wrongly perceived as a green energy despite its important impacts on the environment.  
 
 
Organised by the Recreational Fisheries and Aquatic Environment Forum in the European Parliament on the 10th of November, the conference entitled “How green is hydropower?” addressed a widely unknown aspect of “renewables” in a time of crucial decisions for the future climate and energy policies.
Sea Bass
Sea bass measures for recreational fishermen
included in the 2016 TAC & Quotas proposal

 
 
The European Commission revealed on Tuesday, 10th November its annual proposal for fishing opportunities in the Atlantic and North Sea for 2016. This year’s proposal includes sea bass measures for commercial fisheries as well as for recreational fisheries.
The Commission has proposed a six months closure period in the first half of 2016. This closure means that no bass can be caught during this period. The anglers should release the fish and the commercial fishermen will have to land it to be used for non-human consumption purposes, following the provisions of the discard ban.
After this period, the Commission suggests that the present three bass bag limit should be reduced to one fish. The European Union recreational fishermen are committed to work for the sustainable management of sea bass in Europe and they believe that these new measures are unnecessary and unfair.
 
EU Angling associations
Meet the anglers # 5 : Alleanza Pescatori Ricreativi (APR)

 

The Alleanza Pescatori Ricreativi (Alliance of Recreational Fishermen - APR) was created to bring together all Italian recreational fishermen not belonging to sport fishing associations. The initiative was taken by fishermen themselves in order to assure a better coordination of the sector and make their voice heard at the institutional level.
As their European counterparts, the Italian anglers are very much concerned with the protection of nature, the conservation of biodiversity and the establishment of fair management plans for fishery resources. They are in the front line and they carry on several information campaigns on crucial issues, such as illegal fishing and the protection of natural resources.
 
EU RecFishing News

EP Question -
Dams: Consistency with the Water Framework, the Birds and the Habitats Directives


The European Commission quotes a recent  EU ruling to answer a question about the construction of a dam.

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EC Press release -
EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy – progress has been made, but greater efforts are needed

 
The mid-term review of the EU Biodiversity Strategy assesses whether the EU is on track to achieve the objective of halting biodiversity loss by 2020. The results show progress in many areas, but highlight the need for much greater effort to deliver commitments on implementation by Member States. 

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DG ENVI briefing -
Extent of plastics in the Mediterranean Sea: a growing problem


Researchers reviewed previous studies to show that the northwest Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot for plastic debris. They found that marine litter harmed 134 species in the Mediterranean Sea and call for more to be done to manage the growing problem of debris, especially plastics, littering the Sea.

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