L’actualité

29/06/12

Boston Fish Party

Good news from the North Atlantic Marine Alliance: a 70+ year prohibition against locally-caught seafood at farmers markets ended.

22/06/12

Small is Beautiful, but fluffy round the edges

An interesting analysis, by Brian O'Riordan, Secretary, ICSF Belgium Office, on the challenges of defining small-scale fisheries

14/06/12

Une conscience écologique au service de son pays

Haïdar El Ali, représentant des réseaux de Slow Fish et Terra Madre, devient le nouveau ministre de l'écologie du Sénégal.

13/06/12

Unity in Diversity

FAO Voluntary Guidelines to Secure Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (VG-SSF) promise an overarching framework that recognizes the rights of fishing communities to life and livelihood

12/06/12

Slow Sea Land

This weekend the historic fishing and agricultural town of Mazara del Vallo in southwestern Sicily hosted the first edition of Slow Sea Land, an event dedicated to celebrating quality food production across Sicily and the Mediterranean...

04/06/12

Fishing season in Istanbul

For the last two years, Fikir Sahibi Damaklar, one of Istanbul's convivia, has been raising awareness about the problems facing the resources of the Bosphorus, the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

21/05/12

Directives pour la pêche artisanale

Des organisations de Terra Madre et des pêcheurs de Slow Fish fishers ont participé fin Mars à un atelier sur les Directives Volontaires pour la Pêche Artisanale de la FAO. Brian O'Riordan, de l'organisation ICSF, explique pourquoi ces directives devraient être aplpiquées à la pêche artisanale dans l'Unione Européenne

25/04/12

A Half Attempt

Niaz Dory, director of the North Altlantic Marine Alliance, reacts to what she calls Whole Food's half attempt, following the distributor's declaration that it would stop selling red-listed fish.

16/04/12

Sustainable prawns, at a price

Australian food writer Rachel Lebihan draws our attention on how interesting, and challenging, it is to source sustainable shrimps in Sydney, Australia.

20/03/12

CPF: Tackling Discards On Fishery Basis

The expected attempt to block the discard ban through a declaration in Council never happened. Instead, ministers today held a long discussion on different approaches on how to reduce discards. See the Videos from the meeting.

19/03/12

EU Ministers Meet over Fish Discards

EU fisheries ministers in Brussels to discuss a proposed ban on discards, the controversial practice in which fish of lesser-market value or that aren't part of licensed quotas are thrown back to sea dead

15/03/12

Les pêcheurs sur les écrans

Pêcheurs du Monde, un festival international de films dédié à la pêche artisanal, se tiendra à Lorient à la fin du mois.

13/03/12

Lettre des Prud'hommes Pêcheurs

les Prud'hommes Pêcheurs réagissent au projet de Parc National des Calanques et aux zones de non-prélèvement envisagées, afin de préserver l'avenir de la pêche artisanale

08/03/12

Ghosts in the Baltic sea

This documentary give a good view of what is happening under the surface, when nets are lost or thrown away and become ghost nets, that carry on fishing

07/03/12

Damanaki Stresses Environmental Challenges

Preparing for Rio +20, the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries adressed the European Parliament on key targets for Oceans and Coasts Symposium