Foreningen For Skånsomt Kystfiskeri Producentorganisation
FSK-PO
FSKPO er en fiskeriforening, der varetager kystfiskernes interesser.
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Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Asger Christensen (Member of the European Parliament)
28 May 2025 · Fisheries
Response to Preventing illegal trade in wildlife
6 Oct 2021
The European eel is a threatened species. Despite a CITES listing making it illegal to export eel out of EU. Iligal trade still ocurs. Accoring til the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) "customs seizures indicate that the illegal export of glass eel could be substantial, potentially exceeding the legal market". It is crucial that this illegal practise is stoped and that key countries for glass eel fisheries in a consistent way and urgently control and stop illegal practises in fishing.
The Commission must insist that illegal fisheries is stoped, and that memberstates is implementing measures to stop illegal practises and fishermen.
Read full responseResponse to Action plan to conserve fisheries resources and protect marine ecosystems
12 May 2021
As small-scale low impact fishermen FSKPO support the initiative of the strategy. Our members way of fishing and their livelihood, is dependent on healthy and resilient ecosystems and large fish stocks that the strategy aims to conserve,
We acknowledge that the common fisheries policy, among its key objectives, has to ensure that fishing is environmentally sustainable. We would also like to emphasize, that a key objective of the policy is also to contribute to a fair standard of living for those who depend on fishing activities, bearing in mind coastal fisheries and socio-economic aspects.
Danish Small scale low impact fishermen has for years via last haul controls shown that our part of the fleet catches a minimum of undersized fish. Mostly the catches of undersized fish in our fisheries are zero.
In the area of Øresund, where only low impact fishing is allowed, biodiversity is high, the cod stock is healthy and marine mammals thrive. (1) This shows, that our way of fishing does not conflict with the environmental pillar of the CFP, and we still make a fair living out of fishing. Low impact fishing also uses a minimum amount of fuel compared to other fishing techniques targeting the same species. All these benefits of the low impact fisheries makes this kind of fishing, key in reaching important objectives in the common fisheries policy, in the environmental legislation (including the biodiversity stragegy and the fish strategy) and in reducing CO2.
Since 2013 member states has been obliged to use transparent and objective criteria including those of an environmental, social and economic nature, when allocation fishing opportunities. In addition, member states should have endeavored to provide incentives to fishing vessels that fishes selectively with reduced impact on environment and habitats. These obligations has not been met.
In this strategy the Commission must have the appropriate tools to reduce the most harmful fishing practices and the strategy must include strict timelines for the implementation of the objective and goals, and a follow up procedures should be included already from the beginning.
Fishing gears can be used in a variety of ways, making it more or less damaging. This is why it can seem difficult to identify fishing practices “most harmful to biodiversity, including on the seabed”. We advocate though, that certain fishing can be identified as “most harmful”. This is gear that is designed to be towed in very stony areas, and which are able to remove rocks and smoothing the seafloor, and fishing gears that plough deep into the seafloor.
Beam trawlers targeting flatfish are one of those gears. Fishing with this kind of gear should only be allowed in designated high resilient areas where it does not conflict with the fishing grounds of small scale low impact fishermen, or it should be phased out. Our members experience diminished marine environments and declining catches, when this kind of fishing is deployed, and small scale low impact fishermen are displaced from their fishing grounds from these larger vessels.
Beam trawlers fishing with chain mats should be completely phased out. Chain mats are used to be able to fish on rocky habitats, a practice that destroys and smoothens important habitats for fish and other marine life. Making it difficult, if not impossible, for small scale fishermen to make a fair living out of fishing.
In general we find that gears the directly changes and alters marine stony bottom, corals and bottom structures, should be minimized to areas where the damage is smallest and in areas far away from the fishing grounds of coastal fishermen.
Read full responseMeeting with Charlina Vitcheva (Director-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) and Low Impact Fishers of Europe
15 Mar 2021 · Fisheries issues in the Skagerrak and Kattegat