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

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 …

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 …