the Common Fisheries Policy and an evaluation of individual measures undertaken at the EU and rest of the world levels …Starting from an analysis of the present fisheries stock conservation and the causes of overfishing, the description of …

Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG)measures on the fish processing industry” is to evaluate the impact of FIFG …FIFG = Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance … funding on the fish processing sector, in European Community Member States during the 1994 to 1999 programme. ...The study was …

.,2000). This trend has paralleled a general decline in catchable wild fish stocks and an increase in consumer demand for fin … world and have also recommended proceduresto minimise ecological impacts (e.g. FAR, 1993). …

Traditionally, the welfare of fish compared to welfare of other, land farmed animals has not been an important topic to … welfare, which hardly ever took fish into consideration. So why was and is fish, compared to other animals, not a hot topic … regarding welfare concerns? First, there is a lack of tradition in perceiving fish as sentient beings as fish do not evoke …

policy interest to the Commission are the contribution of aquaculture to the provision of fisheries products in the Union and …

Fisheries, including aquaculture, provide a vital source of food, employment, recreation, trade and economic well …-being for people throughout the European Union. Decisions under the Common Fisheries Policy are taken on the basis of scientific … advice provided by fisheries advisory bodies such as the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the …

organisations and main research institutes involved in fisheries and aquaculture. It completes the European Directory of Research … Centres in the Fisheries Sector, edited by the Commission in 1994, which focuses more specifically on a detailed list of all … institutes involved in research in the fisheries sector. All EU countries (except Luxembourg) plus three associated countries …