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Coordinated international action aims to halt decline of marine birds in the North-East Atlantic
This handbook provides an illustrated overview of the main fishing gears currently used in the EU. For each gear, the handbook outlines the essentials of its design, operation method and target species, and shows the main Member State fishing fleets that use it. In addition, it indicates the name of the gears in Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.
The Quality Status Report (QSR) 2023 is the most authoritative assessment of the whole North-East Atlantic and reflects the collective work of the 16 Contracting Parties to the OSPAR Convention, scientists, experts and their institutions, and the OSPAR Secretariat. It assesses the status of various components of the North-East Atlantic and examines how conditions have changed since the last QSR in 2010,
The number of wind farms in the North Sea is increasing. Consequently, there is more need for North Sea countries to exchange experiences and knowledge about these wind farms. The knowledge community “North Sea Shipping Group” (NSSG) was created to address this need.
On 8 December 2022, the Commission adopted a set of fisheries conservation measures to strengthen the environmental protection of six Natura 2000 sites and two national marine protected areas (MPAs) in the North Sea.