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Europêche, the leading representative body for the fishing industry in Europe, has expressed serious concerns over recent allegations that the European Commission financed environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to lobby Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and Member States in favor of the European Green Deal. These claims, highlighted in a recent journalistic investigation, raise critical questions about transparency, accountability and democratic integrity in the EU’s policymaking processes.
Europêche, the representative body of the EU fishing sector and EAPO, the European body representing the producer organisations, have expressed their outrage at the decision taken by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to set an ambitious target with the aim of closing off 30% of all marine areas from extractive activities by 2030.
In March of this year Pew Charitable Trusts published a report Turning the Tide: Ending Overfishing in North Western Europe. That report contained a number of statements which are demonstrably untrue and contrary to scientific opinion.
Europêche strongly denounces the list of vessels published by the NGO Bloom and the subsequent calls for supermarkets to boycott fish caught by the listed trawlers. The list is based on flawed and misleading information, misrepresenting the European fishing industry and the actual purpose of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).