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This article was featured in Eurofish Magazine 5 2025. The Latvian fishing industry is calling for more resources to be invested in studying the causes behind changes to the Baltic Sea ecosystem. …

The digitalisation of the fishing industry is moving ahead This article was featured in Eurofish Magazine 6 2021 Despite many improvements,…

A Sisyphean task for fisheries management This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 6 / 2020. Compliance with fishing quotas and implementation of fisheries regulations requires constant monitoring and control and it was to this end that the Community Fisheries Control Agency was set up as the supreme authority in the EU. Although it is relatively small the agency has to carry out a wide range of tasks. Despite its numerous achievements there seems to be no end to the criticism raining down on the group with regard to the effectiveness of the controls. Why do a lot of things work better in Norway or Iceland?

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing for short) is one of the greatest threats to the sustainability of fishing, marine ecosystems, marine biodiversity, and human food security.