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“Science should not have any mandate to define policy objectives, but to facilitate transparency”

Fisheries policies should not be left only to scientists, argues Poul Degnbol, head of the Advice Programme at ICES and winner of 2010 Baltic Sea Leadership Award. Politicians must take the difficult decisions, but with full transparency, facilitated by science. All the possible options and trade-offs between economics and environment must be available to the public, he underlines, in the name of real democracy.

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2010-08-31
Greenpeace exposes illegal cod fishing by Danish vessels
2010-08-27
NGOs call on European Parliament to improve the EU-Solomon Islands Fisheries Agreement
2010-08-26
Poul Degnbol receives WWF Baltic Sea Leadership Award
2010-08-09
European Commission expresses concern at Faroe Islands high mackerel quota
2010-07-27
Iceland EU membership talks start: Common Fisheries Policy will be major issue
2010-07-23
Schedule for proposals and decisions on 2011 EU fishing opportunities
2010-07-12
Former fisheries commissioner Joe Borg joins public relations consultancy
2010-07-09
New study highlights EU dependence on fish imports
2010-07-07
The European Parliament calls on Iceland to end whaling
2010-07-01
Belgium takes over EU Presidency

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2010-09-09
Commission info day, Framework Programme 7, “OCEAN 2011″, Brussels 9 September
2010-09-24
ICES annual conference, Nantes 20-24 September

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Management effectiveness of the world's fisheries

This video describes the the paper by Mora et al (Plos Biology 2009 7:e1000131) which quantified the management effectiveness of the world's fisheries regimes and how management affects fisheries sustainability. All countries in the world were found to be far behind good standards of management while pressures on policy processes had the strongest role on the fade of sustainability. The paper is at: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/in... justbreen | 25 juin 2009