The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is formally established. The first basic regulation is agreed and TACs, quotas and structural policy are introduced.
An attempt is made to redress the balance between stocks and resources.
The revised Basic Regulation provides that the CFP should protect and conserve living marine resources and minimise impact of fishing on marine ecosystems. In order not to increase fishing capacity even further, the revised European Fisheries Fund no longer provides funds for new boats.
The report judges that the CFP has failed to achieve its central objective of the sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources.
The European Commission publishes reflections on further reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
The Commission’s discussion paper analyses the shortcomings of the CFP, and launches a public consultation on the CFP reform.
The OCEAN2012 coalition is launched in response to the call for a wholesale reform of the CFP and is dedicated to ending over-fishing.
In 2009, the Commission launched a wide-ranging public debate on the way EU fisheries are managed. The public consultation elicited very interesting responses from EU citizens, organisations and governments. Read OCEAN2012's contributions.
Now with 70 members, OCEAN2012 holds 20 events in 9 European countries.
Over 90 percent of people surveyed in the UK are concerned that overfishing is having a serious impact on the health of the seas – and want their government to do more to prevent it.
