IN FOCUS

29/06/2011	Tracing the origin of the fish we eat
15/11/2010	Beyond our shores

NEWS

08/02/2012	Atlantic Area: EU policy for the Atlantic area initiated by Alain Cadec MEP
24/01/2012	Fisheries Committee: EPP Group Spanish MEP Gabriel Mato takes over Presidency from Carmen Fraga
13/07/2011	Fisheries Policy reform: Parliament shares objective of radical reform. Carmen Fraga MEP
28/06/2011	Fisheries: press invitation to a Hearing 'Traceability and labelling of fish products in the EU market'. Carmen Fraga Estévez and Alain Cadec MEP
23/06/2011	European Coast Guard: more security and legal economy in the Mediterranean. Salvatore Iacolino MEP and Crescenzio Rivellini MEP

POLICY

As the Community was created to ensure peace and promote prosperity in Europe, among the policies adopted to achieve these goals was the encouragement of economic development in regions suffering from a lack of jobs and opportunities. The EPP Group firmly believes that fisheries and aquaculture have an important role to play in implementing this policy of economic and social cohesion. The two sectors employ 526,034 people, both men and women, and their combined production value (fisheries, aquaculture, processing and marketing) amounted to 5.3 million tonnes in 2006 (the EU has the second biggest fisheries sector in the world, after China and Peru)....

DELEGATION VISITS

A delegation of the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries visits Seychelles The visit took place on 1-5 November 2011 Report of the visit