Campaign Archives

Illegal destructive bottom trawling uncovered

FishAct volunteers have just come back from Tunisia where they spent 11 days investigating illegal bottom trawling in the Gulf of Gabes (so...

December 17, 2022

The European eel is threatened with extinction. The population has completely collapsed within a few decades despite the advice by...

December 10, 2020

The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union has failed. The CFP came into force 2014 and required all member states to end...

November 27, 2019

After a long and hard fight NGOs finally succeeded as the EU voted for a complete ban of electric fishing today. Electric pulse fishing is...

February 15, 2019

In October 2018 a team of four Citizen Inspectors from three different countries gathered in Tunisia. Their aim was to investigate the use...

December 10, 2018

Last weekend, a team of Citizen Inspectors travelled to the German coast of the Baltic Sea including the island of Rügen. The most...

March 10, 2018

On Tuesday 16th of January the European Parliament adopted a full and definitive ban on electric fishing in Europe. This victory is a...

January 21, 2018

FishAct published the catalogue „The plunder of the sea – facts and demands“, which is raising the most important demands on policy...

October 9, 2017

Participating in the Baltic Circle Rallye means going on a real adventure: 7500 km. 10 countries. 16 days. In an awesome car older than...

July 17, 2017

In the last four weeks FishAct toured through 16 major cities in Germany, giving public talks to raise awareness on the issue of...

September 25, 2016