#OceansPact
📢New report shows that the current EU fisheries policy favours large-scale industry to the detriment of small-scale & low-impact fisheries. 🎣🐟
We call on Commissioner Costas Kadis to take action to fully enforce EU law! #OceansPact #RethinkFisheries
#Pressrelease 👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
April 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢New analysis
No EU country has comprehensive plans to phase out #BottomTrawling from #MPAs by 2030. This is in spite of EU nature laws & international biodiversity commitments that bind Member States to protect their #MPAs. 🐟
#OceansPact #ProtectedMeansProtected
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March 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yesterday, @socialistsanddemocrats.eu called on Commissioner Kadis to make the EU #OceansPact binding 🪢

If we want a healthy & resilient ocean, it can’t be all splash and no substance 🌊

The #BlueManifesto shows how to get there: bit.ly/3EKYQW6
April 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
⚠️ The @ec.europa.eu review of #MSFD is out. While fishing pressure in the Mediterranean is double the sustainable level, high concentrations of mercury have been found in fish and mussels in the Baltic.

The #OceansPact is a chance to turn the tide - for our Ocean and the livelihoods it sustains.
February 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
EU countries continue to defy rules on protecting marine habitats🪸🐙
Now scientists, fishers & civil society ask Commissioner Costas Kadis to use the EU #OceansPact to put a stop to destructive fisheries in Marine Protected Areas.
👀Read more: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
#ProtectedMeansProtected
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Today's EP debate on the #OceansPact highlighted the dire state of #OurOcean & the need to support fishers & coastal communities. We agree & urge to protect 30% of #OurOcean by 2030, ban destructive #BottomTrawling to rewild marine ecosystems & gain socio-economic benefits.
Well-managed #MarineProtectedAreas are vital for:

🌊 Ocean conservation
🎣 Supporting coastal communities
🔵 A sustainable #BlueEconomy

The EU #OceansPact should ensure real protection for MPAs. Learn more in our new briefing ⤵️

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April 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
2 former EU Commissioners join calls on their successor Costas Kadis to ensure his #OceansPact is bold & binding to address the threats #OurOcean faces. With #UNOC just days away all eyes are on him to show the EU can be the leader the ocean 🌊 & planet 🌍 so badly need euobserver.com/green-econom...
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Well-managed #MarineProtectedAreas are vital for:

🌊 Ocean conservation
🎣 Supporting coastal communities
🔵 A sustainable #BlueEconomy

The EU #OceansPact should ensure real protection for MPAs. Learn more in our new briefing ⤵️

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April 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌊🔬 Marine Knowledge, recognised in the #OceansPact as a key enabler of a healthy and prosperous ocean, is more critical than ever.

At #EMD2025, our workshop, moderated by #UrmasLips, highlighted the essential role of ocean observation in turning that vision into reality.
May 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Well-managed #MarineProtectedAreas are vital for:

🌊 Ocean conservation
🎣 Supporting coastal communities
🔵 A sustainable #BlueEconomy

The EU #OceansPact should ensure real protection for MPAs. Learn more in this briefing with working examples across Europe⤵️

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April 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
As multilateralism falters, the EU's proposed #OceansPact offers a vital chance to strengthen Europe's marine conservation approach before UNOC3. As our planet is facing a triple planetary crisis, OceanCare urges a holistic framework to address climate change, pollution & biodiversity loss. #SDG14
March 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🚨 The leaked EU #OceansPact is a masterclass in smoke & mirrors, its 'actions' mainly a repackaging of existing agreements. Without binding measures the Pact will be more flop than framework. @ec.europa.eu has until 04/06 to fix this. #BackToTheDrawingBoard #BlueManifesto
@l-guillot.bsky.social
EU Ocean Pact must confront destructive activities for the ocean, NGOs warn  - Seas At Risk
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s long-awaited Ocean Pact has sparked serious concerns among ‘Blue NGOs’. While the document outlines steps towards better enforcement of existing laws, NGOs ...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Much more could and should have been asked of the EU #OceansPact, but credit where it’s due: the largest political group @eppgroup.bsky.social is now crystal clear on #DeepSeaMining: A moratorium until impacts are fully understood, no loss of biodiversity, no ecosystem degradation. 🌊⛏️ #DefendTheDeep
EPP Group Position Paper on the European Ocean Pact
The EPP Group welcomes the initiative of the European Ocean Pact, as it is time for the EU, which has the world's largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), to assume its maritime leadership. This leaders...
www.eppgroup.eu
May 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
EU #IUU Coalition ( @ejfoundation.org @oceanaeurope.bsky.social @nature.org @pewtrusts.org @wwfeu.bsky.social ) #OceansPact priorities:
1️⃣Implementation of existing rules📜
2️⃣Vessel&beneficial ownership transparency🪪
3️⃣Action against flags of non-compliance🚩
Full text👇
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February 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
📢 With only 12% of EU seas designated as protected & destructive fishing still rampant in the so called "protected areas", EU seas are at risk. It's time for the EU to expand #MPAs & ensure they are truly protected.🐳 #ProtectedMeansProtected #OceansPact
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March 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🔹 Insightful discussions at #EUAquaculture event! 🌊

Piroska Kállay of EESC.bsky.social highlighted how aquaculture boosts jobs in coastal & rural areas, supports #FoodSecurity, and drives #sustainability. 💡

📖Read our opinion on #OceansPact: europa.eu/!qvqwDy

📣With costaskadis.bsky.social & others
March 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Destructive fishing is decimating fish populations and destroying marine ecosystems.

The Irish Wildlife Trust calls on the Government to submit their EU roadmaps detailing how they plan to phase out bottom trawling in MPA's by 2030

#ProtectedMeansProtected #OceansPact #MPA

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Press Release: The Irish Wildlife Trust is calling for the Irish Government to submit their overdue national roadmap for phasing out destructive fishing in Marine Protected Areas. - Irish Wildlife Tru...
Press Release 20th March 2025 The Irish Wildlife Trust is calling for the Irish Government to submit their overdue national roadmap for phasing out destructive fishing in Marine Protected Areas.    A ...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A new @EU_Commission report confirms we're failing #OurOcean. 🌊
Implementation of the EU's overarching tool to achieve healthy seas (the #MSFD) is failing miserably & needs to be a top priority of the #OceansPact.
👀 Read: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
#BlueManifesto @tobiastroll.bsky.social
Report uncovers serious failure to protect EU Seas - NGOs call for full use of Marine Directive - Seas At Risk
ClientEarth, BirdLife Europe & Central Asia, Seas At Risk and Surfrider Foundation Europe call on EU leaders to urgently address the serious failure to protect EU seas that has been confirmed by a new...
seas-at-risk.org
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🚨NEW PR: Despite a 1 yr deadline not a single EU country has launched plans to phase out bottom trawling from MPAs. 🤯
The political will to act is slim to none. 👎
All eyes are now on Commissioner Kadis's #OceansPact to deliver for #OurOcean. 🌊🐙
Read more🔗
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NGOs join forces to demand a ban on destructive fishing in protected areas, and reveal bottom trawling's economic toll - Seas At Risk
Leading ocean organizations – including Seas At Risk, BLOOM, Oceana, EarthEcho International, Rise Up and The Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition – are taking part in a Week of Ocean Action (24-30 Mar...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🌊 Healthy oceans and a competitive blue economy must go hand in hand. For #WorldOceanDay the EESC calls for stronger ocean governance, sustainable fisheries, innovation & support for coastal communities.
#OceansPact 👉 link.europa.eu/RPMFYf

@eesc.bsky.social
June 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM
🌊 EU - #OceansPact: Heute beraten Stakeholder aus der maritimen Wirtschaft über strengere Gesetze und ihre Durchsetzung für den Schutz der Meere. Das #BlueManifesto zeigt den Weg dorthin: seas-at-risk.org/blue-manifes...
March 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The #OceansPact must fix these failures by strengthening the #MSFD, ensuring legally binding and measurable targets, and securing proper funding. At least 30% of EU seas must be protected by 2030, with 10% under strict protection.
Our seas can’t wait 📣
March 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
💰Adequate funding secured to implement #OceansPact (mainly through existing resources and by encouraging private investment).
🎣Small scale fishers important part of the Pact.
🛑Banning #bottomtrawling dependant on impact assessments.
4/5
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
4️⃣Coastal communities
5️⃣Implementation & monitoring mechanism for #OceansPact with indicators & key actions/initiatives plus some legislative actions in line with sustainability, competitiveness, simplification/cut of red tape
6️⃣Policy integration
7️⃣Education and awareness
2/5
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🧵Interesting discussion on the European #OceansPact in @politico.eu's webinar.
@ec.europa.eu DG MARE Commissioner Dr Costas Kadis highlighted these key priorities:
1️⃣Sustainable blue economy
2️⃣Ground policy on knowledge
3️⃣International ocean governance - mirror EU policies internationally
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM