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Protecting Life in the Sea

• Unrestrained impact of human activity is imposing fundamental, perhaps irreversible, changes on the world's oceans. This brochure examines the Pew Environment Group's work over the last 15 years and looking ahead to 2012, to increase public awareness and promote solutions through scientific research, public education and the promotion of strong conservation policies.
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Common Fisheries Policy reform

• The Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme contribution to the consultation on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, December 2009
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  Annex 1 Environmental and Social Criteria for Allocating Access to Fisheries Resources: Case Studies by Meridian Prime (PDF)
  Annex 2 Regional Fisheries Management: How to make it work for fisheries and the environment: Conference proceedings and background paper in English (pdf) by OCEAN2012 and WWF (PDF)
  Annex 3 Design Matters: Making Catch Shares Work by the Pew Environment Group (PDF)
  


• Report from the Madrid Workshop held on March 31 2009, to highlight the importance of strengthening fisheries control
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• Preliminary comments on the Commission proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy
  January 2009 (PDF)
  
  
• Ocean Science Fact Sheet: Common Fishery Terms
  March 2010
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  This fact sheet includes definitions for commonly used fishery terms, among them benthic and pelagic zones and straddling stocks. Acronyms include EBM, HMS and MSY, with formulae from B to Z also covered.

Port State Performance

• Pew’s Port State Performance research consolidates five years of movement data on IUU-listed vessels, tracking their port visits globally to evaluate port State performance in combating illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing.
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fishsubsidy.org

This website database launched by EU Transparency and the Pew Environment Group, presents detailed data on many billions of euro of EU subsidies to ports and fishing vessels, from 1994 to 2006.

Following the model of farmsubsidy.org, it is hoped that fishsubsidy.org will stimulate a better informed debate about the rights and wrongs of the EU’s common fisheries policy. Find out more

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Pew Environment Group

• Pew Environment Group
  An overview of our mission, work style and ethic, and the main focus of our work, namely global warming, protecting life in the sea and wilderness conservation.
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• The Pew Environment Group in the European Union (PDF)
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Key other reports & resources

• Overcapacity - what overcapacity?
  An Evaluation of Member States Reporting on Efforts to Achieve a Sustainable Balance between Capacity and Fishing Opportunities in 2007, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), July 2009
  
  
• Costs of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in EU Fisheries
  Report by eftec (Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd), November 2008