
Encyclopedia of fish celebrates its fifteenth species!
Since the launch of the Encyclopedia of Fish our dedicated team of volunteers has been working hard to bring the beauties of the oceans to
We train volunteers as undercover fisheries observers to become actively involved in port inspections and market research.
Our team is joining and organizing events all over Europe, to talk about the challenges the ocean faces and the work of FishAct.
To stop overfishing, we are working together with other organisations and meet politicians and stakeholders.
Industrial fishing is a multinational, multibillion-dollar industry, which has been depleting fish populations worldwide for decades, driving many marine species towards extinction.
It is estimated that the fishing industry kills between 1 and 2.7 trillion fish from the wild every year. The reason why industrial fishing vessels can catch these huge amounts of fish is their size and their technical equipment.
Despite this overexploitation of our seas, the EU is still the world’s primary importer of fish. Today, each person eats on average 19.2 kg of fish a year, that’s almost twice as much as what we ate 50 years ago. Our oceans simply cannot withstand this level of exploitation.
(image source: U.S. Coast Guard)
Low priority given to IUU fishing by enforcements is an enticing factor for associated activities, because it’s low risk, but high return. Far from constituting a harmless lack of compliance with regulations, IUU fishing destroys marine ecosystems, threatens food security, harms legitimate fishers and damages the economy and state governance.
Watch our latest documentary about our undercover investigation on Sicily and learn what our activists are doing in the field and what keeps them positive and motivated.
A movie by Tom Vierus for FishAct
Since the launch of the Encyclopedia of Fish our dedicated team of volunteers has been working hard to bring the beauties of the oceans to
FishAct volunteers have just come back from Tunisia where they spent 11 days investigating illegal bottom trawling in the Gulf of Gabes (so called ‘Kiss
On 20.07.22 we had the pleasure of attending the premiere of Patagonia’s latest film. The film The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez was presented.
Hi folks, wishing you a happy 2021! We may have been quiet the past several months, but we certainly have not stopped being busy. One
The European eel is threatened with extinction. The population has completely collapsed within a few decades despite the advice by scientists to stop fishing their
90 percent of fish populations around the world are fully or over exploited. Our ocean is already suffering. But billions of euro in government subsidies