Oceana urges EU leaders to support low impact fishers

With the high-level conference on islands and coastal communities, organised by the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU, having concluded, Oceana calls on the EU to use the upcoming Ocean Act to ensure low-impact fishers get preferential access to coastal waters over industrial fishing fleets. This would support local economies and strengthen the resilience of coastal ecosystems to climate change and other pressures.

“Low-impact fishers are key to strengthening coastal communities by...