Oak Foundation’s European Marine Programme Goals
To ensure that European Fishing fleet practices, in both European waters and abroad, become sustainable and reflect the intent of the European Common Fisheries policy by 2015.
In Europe we support policy, consumer education, and research activities that:
- Reduce and eliminate bycatch and destructive fishing practices;
- Stop over-fishing by European vessels through ecosystem-based management both in Europe and abroad; and
- Eliminate harmful subsidies.
European Marine Programme Grants (2006)
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Institute for European Environmental Policy
To assess and ensure the proper implementation of an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management. To ensure that the review of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2012 includes an objective for the effective implementation of the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management and lists the policies and measures by which this can be achieved. (Over three years)
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SeaWeb
• To achieve protection by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) for Sturgeon beluga so that CITES maintains its power to issue quotas and to maintain the ban on this trade beyond 2006.
• To create a robust and growing sustainable seafood community across Europe thus responding to many of the world’s fisheries problems such as over-fishing, pollution, habitat destruction and bad policy. (Over three years)