News - FishAct

Investigation Report: Kiss Trawling is destroying the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia

A team of FishAct volunteers has conducted research into shallow water bottom trawling in Tunisia. The results show how widespread the...

March 28, 2023

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...

January 27, 2023

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

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...

September 14, 2022

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 of...

February 28, 2021

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

December 10, 2020

90 percent of fish populations around the world are fully or over exploited. Our ocean is already suffering. But billions of euro in...

November 4, 2020

The previously unknow word “Covid-19“ is finding its way into nearly every conversation taking place around the globe. The whole...

June 9, 2020

The year comes to an end and we take stock. Despite the legal requirement to end overfishing in the EU until 2020, 41 percent of all fish...

December 30, 2019

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