PRESS RELEASES

24/02/2010	EPP Group calls for a fisheries policy reform that guarantees the future of resources and fishermen. Maria do Céu Patrão Neves MEP
16/11/2009	Opération militaire ATALANTE: rencontre des députés européens avec le vice-amiral Hudson. Arnaud Danjean, MdPE et Alain Cadec, MdPE
05/11/2009	EPP Group demands that EU Council extends 'Atalanta operation' to protect fishing fleet in Indian Ocean. Carmen Fraga MEP
22/04/2009	Fisheries: EPP-ED Group wants simple and sustainable fishery regulation. Cornelis Visser MEP
20/02/2009	Duarte Freitas defende os Conselhos Consultivos Regionais da Pesca/ Fisheries Policy. Duarte Freitas MEP

POLICY

As the Community was created to ensure peace and promote prosperity in Europe, among the policies adopted to achieve these goals was the encouragement of economic development in regions suffering from a lack of jobs and opportunities. The EPP-ED Group firmly believes that fisheries and aquaculture have an important role to play in implementing this policy of economic and social cohesion. The two sectors employ 526,034 people, both men and women, and their combined production value (fisheries, aquaculture, processing and marketing) amounted to 7 million tonnes in 2003 (the EU has the second biggest fisheries sector in the world, after China)...

DELEGATION VISITS

  A delegation of the European Parliament´s Committee on Fisheries visits Madeira
  The visit took place on 26-29 November 2008
  Report of the visit

  A delegation of the European Parliament´s Committee on Fisheries visits Norway
  The visit took place on 28-31 May 2008
  Report of the visit