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The European Parliament deals with an important amount of legislation that has a direct impact on fish stocks and the aquatic environment.
An "Aquatic Environment and Recreational Fisheries" Intergroup is needed in the European Parliament to keep MEPs aware of these issues.
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The RecFishing Intergroup's Newsletter
Intergroup on Aquatic Environment and Recreational Fishing

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Intergroup News
RecFishing Intergroup cocktail in the European Parliament
 
                                      

The campaign for the creation of the Intergroup continued in September and the Secretariat organized an important number of bilateral meetings with MEPs and their assistants in order to inform them about our project and secure the vote of at least three political groups before the 26th of November, which is the date the political groups shall vote on their preferred Intergroups among more than one hundred candidates.

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Stories about the
Angling communities’ commitment to the environment:

Story #1: the UK Angling Trust


                      
© Angling Trust
The Angling Trust is the main anglers’ association in the UK, with 17.000 individual members and 1.800 clubs and associations representing 340.000 anglers. The Angling Trust manages different environmental campaigns. Many of the Angling Trust's activities are carried out by or with the help of volunteers. This is the case of the "Voluntary Bailiff Service", a project put in place in 2012 to support the work of the officers of the Environment Agency Fishery Enforcement.
 

Anglers' concerns:
The European Maritime policy: Across and Beyond remits

             
     

Over the years, the EU has put in place a complex web of intertwined policies and legislative instruments of importance for marine affairs. The best known ones may be the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Habitats and Birds Directives (HBD) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Earlier this year a Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning has been adopted. ‘Coherence’ between all these policies is not fully achieved as yet but EU is ‘working on it. 
 
EU RecFishing News

Recent EAA positions  

European Anglers Alliance position on the European Commission's proposed driftnetting ban pending at the European Parliament and Council. You can read it [here].
European Anglers Alliance position on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna management. You can read it [here]. 
 

WFD - Water Services

Water Framework Directive: The European Commission lost the case against Germany concerning the recovery costs for water services. Read the full judgment [here].   

New regulation on IAS

At the end of September, the regulation on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of Invasive Alien Species was adopted by the Council of the European Union. Read more  [here].   
News from the world
President Obama proclaims
World's biggest Marine Protected Area
 
On September 25, President Obama signed a proclamation creating the largest marine reserve in the world. Although the proclamation bans commercial fishing, deep-sea mining and other commercial extraction methods, recreational fishing will be allowed. Acknowledging that recreational fishing is a sustainable use of public resources, especially in one as pristine and special as this area of the Pacific, is a distinction for which the recreational fishing community has been advocating for many years. 

 
RecFishing Events
European Parliament PECH Committee Meeting
Presentation of a study on  'Sea bass stocks and management measures in the European Union' 
16 October 2014
Brussels, Belgium
Website: www.europarl.europa.eu

European Parliament Committees Meeting
Environment: 13 October 2014, 5-6 and 11 November 2014
Agriculture: 5-6 November 2014 
Regional development: 3-4 November 2014

IWRM-Net SCP Final Event 
21-22 October 2014
Brussels, Belgium
Website: http://webnux.rnde.tm.fr 
 
10th European Water Association Conference 
17-19 November 2014
Brussels, Belgium
Website: http://www.ewa-online.eu
 
34th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention
2-5 December 2014
Strasbourg, France
Website: https://wcd.coe.int
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The Intergroup Secretariat is provided by:
 
EAA, the European Anglers Alliance        
EFTTA, the European Fishing Tackle Trade Association

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Email: recfishep@eaa-europe.eu

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