Blue & Green - The RecFishing Forum Newsletter

2015


The Blue & Green newsletter is the information letter of the European Parliament Forum on Recreational Fisheries and the Aquatic Environment. With six editions every year, the newsletter aims to inform policymakers and stakeholders about the latest information about recreational fishing at the EU level and the Forum’s activities. To subscribe to our newsletter please click here.



  • Hydropower energy is not a perfect solution for nature
  • Sea bass measures for recreational fishermen included in the 2016 TAC & quotas proposal
  • Alleanza Pescatori Ricreativi
  • EP Question - Dams: Consistency with the Water Framework, the Birds and the Habitats Directives
  • EC Press release - EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy - Progress has been made, but greater efforts are needed
  • DG ENVI briefing - Extent of plastics in the Mediterranean Sea: a growing problem

  • SAVE THE DATE: Event on hydropower and small dams
  • Is hydropower electricity 'green'?
  • The European Parliament soon to be involved with a sea bass long term management plan
  • Fédération Nationale des Pêcheurs Plaisanciers et Sportifs de France
  • New report compares the economics of angling and commercial fishing
  • DG ENVI briefing: Fragmentation of brown trout habitat threatens freshwater pearl mussels in Sweden
  • The importance of the recreational craft sector

  • Anglers push for strong emergency measures and a sound management plan to save the European sea bass
  • Recreational fishing as a successful rural development tool: Fishing Zealand - a cooperative project
  • The Deutscher Angelfischerverband
  • EPRS note: Potential benefits of EU water legislation
  • DG ENVI briefing: Sustainable aquaculture
  • DG ENVI briefing: Increased oestrogen pollution in European rivers could affect development of brown trout


  • SAVE THE DATE: Long term management of the European Sea Bass recreational fisheries
  • RecFishing Forum launched in the European Parliament to strengthen the voice of 25 million EU anglers in Brussels
  • Driftnet ban proposal to be voted in the PECH Committee
  • Council adopts measures to help sea bass to recover
  • Nutrient pollution in Dutch streams is falling, but further reductions needed

  • Launch event of the Recreational Fisheries Discussion Forum
  • Sea bass emergency measures - and next steps
  • Sportvisserij Nederland
  • Motion for a resolution on pollution control in Europe's rivers and lakes
  • Eels can be used to help monitor water's ecological quality
  • Almost half of EU freshwaters suffer from chemical pollution

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