Coastal Champions

UK Government in court over “wrongheaded” fishing policy

Last edited 20 November 2015 at 3:21pm
20 November, 2015
Next week (24-25 November) a judicial review hearing at the High Court will see Greenpeace challenge the UK Government over its distribution of fishing quota.

Greenpeace is arguing that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has failed to implement Article 17 of the EU’s reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which emphasises transparency and environmental, social and economic criteria in the allocation of fishing quota.

Article tagged as: CFP, Coastal Champions, common fisheries policy, DEFRA, small, sustainable fishing

Government Minister petitions himself

Last edited 19 November 2015 at 9:31am
19 November, 2015
Fisheries Minister George Eustice will today receive a petition signed by himself, calling on himself to implement the measures George Eustice believes that George Eustice should take in redistributing fishing quota to small, sustainable, fishing vessels.

In April, during Greenpeace and NUTFA’s “Coastal Champions” boat tour promoting local fishing, which stopped in 25 coastal communities around England and Wales, George Eustice joined 120 then-parliamentary candidates in signing up to an action plan which called on the Government to reallocate fishing quota from large industrial vessels to local, low-impact, boats in order to create jobs in

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A Government Minister just lobbied himself

Posted by Rukayah Sarumi — 19 November 2015 at 9:14am - Comments
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George Eustice and other parliamentary candidates back the Coastal Champions campaign in April 2015

The Fisheries Minister George Eustice just received a petition signed by himself, calling on himself to implement the measures George Eustice believes that George Eustice should take in redistributing fishing quota to small, sustainable, fishing vessels.

Article tagged as: Coastal Champions, coastal champions boat tour, coastal economies, fisheries, George Eustice, oceans, small scale fisherman, sustainable fishing

How we made fish the ‘must-have’ prop of the election campaign

Posted by Emily Buchanan — 30 April 2015 at 12:26pm - Comments
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Jules, the Skipper of Rising Tide

There’s something fishy going on.

Article tagged as: boat tour, Coastal Champions, coastal champions boat tour, election, manifestos

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