Environmental Justice Foundation

Out of sight, out of control. 🦑🌊 Squid fleets fish vast areas with no catch limits, no reporting, no monitoring. Join EJF at #COP17 for our new film and panel. 📍 Ocean Pavilion, 28 Oct, 16:00 🔗 Register here: luma.com/i1xcz13f

Trans-shipment at sea, switched-off tracking, unreported catch: fleets operate unseen and avoid prosecution. High-seas MPAs under #BBNJ won't deliver if the fishing around them stays unregulated.

Out of sight, out of control. 🦑🌊 Squid fleets fish vast areas with no catch limits, no reporting, no monitoring. Join EJF at #COP17 for our new film and panel. 📍 Ocean Pavilion, 28 Oct, 16:00 🔗 Register here: luma.com/i1xcz13f

Squid are prey for sperm whales, seabirds, tuna and sharks. Taking huge volumes from populations that nobody manages ripples through the whole ocean food web.

🐟 EJF welcomes the European Commission’s Vision 2040, which sets out its strategic direction for securing healthy ecosystems, thriving businesses and coastal communities 👏 Existing initiatives such as the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) can help deliver this Vision, matched with greater transparency.

🐟 Europe's fisheries need action, not another reform process. The Common Fisheries Policy #CFP is not broken - the European Commission’s own evaluation found that it was fit for purpose. Our message to the Commission is simple: implement, enforce and invest. Don't reopen the CFP.

🎙️ Seven years since the EU Landing Obligation, wasteful fish discarding continues to deplete fish populations - but the solutions exist. EJF and @oceanaeurope.bsky.social spoke at the @oceanographicmag.bsky.social roundtable about their latest report: open.file///Users/lmou...

🪸 Hier, aux côtés de Manche Nature, nous avons remis 12,037 signatures réclamant une protection efficace des herbiers de maerl de Chausey au préfet de la Manche, à Saint-Lô, en Normandie.

La pétition réclame l'interdiction des engins traînants de fond dans les habitats les plus sensibles de Chausey, des décisions fondées sur des données scientifiques, ainsi qu'un accompagnement des pêcheurs artisans vers une transition juste. En savoir plus sur la campagne :

🪸 Join us below the waters of the Chausey archipelago to witness one of the most remarkable and least-known habitats in the English Channel - maerl beds. Our new short film includes underwater footage of maerl and the voices of people whose futures are bound up in this ‘pink treasure’.

Despite the fact that Chausey is a marine protected area, its maerl beds continue to be degraded by dredging and bottom trawling. What is lost today cannot be rebuilt within a generation. We are taking action to ensure these habitats are protected in practice, not just on paper.

🪸 Join us below the waters of the Chausey archipelago to witness one of the most remarkable and least-known habitats in the English Channel - maerl beds. Our new short film includes underwater footage of maerl and the voices of people whose futures are bound up in this ‘pink treasure’.

🚨 Public health announcement 🚨 We investigated chemicals in everyday plastic items and found something alarming: 92.8% pose a high risk to human health.

This is not a problem people can solve through their own choices alone. The chemicals are present across thousands of ordinary products, most of them in the form of plastics, yet often unlabelled and invisible. The responsibility to act sits with industry and governments. Read the report:

🚨 Public health announcement 🚨 We investigated chemicals in everyday plastic items and found something alarming: 92.8% pose a high risk to human health.

“We want to see legal, sustainable, and ethical seafood on our plates and in our markets.” Yesterday, EJF CEO and Founder Steve Trent spoke on a panel at OPAGAC’s Hands for the Ocean in @europarl.europa.eu. He called for transparency to end #IUU fishing and human rights abuses at sea. #OceanWeek

⚠️ The plastic we live with every day is quietly poisoning us ⚠️ We’ve released our shocking research: 92.8% of the chemicals we assessed in everyday plastic items are linked to cancer, infertility and heart disease. Almost none are controlled.

The chemicals inside commonly used plastic products, from food containers and coffee cups to children's toys, threaten human health on a vast scale. More than half of these high-risk chemicals are not regulated at the international level or countries we reviewed. This is a public health emergency.

On Tuesday, the EJF EU team co-organised two #OceanWeek events at the European Parliament, and the rooms were full 🌊 One message ran through both: Europe does not need new ocean promises. It needs to deliver the ones it has made 🧵

2️⃣ At the Blue NGOs’ Ocean Act reception, hosted by MEP Christophe Clergeau, MEPs, ministers and the Commission heard our shared call: turn existing commitments into coherent, enforceable action that works for people and planet.

On Tuesday, the EJF EU team co-organised two #OceanWeek events at the European Parliament, and the rooms were full 🌊 One message ran through both: Europe does not need new ocean promises. It needs to deliver the ones it has made 🧵

Europe's fish populations are in crisis. The Landing Obligation must be fully implemented to stop it. Nearly 50% of Irish Sea haddock and 80% of eastern English Channel plaice discarded. 7️⃣ years after entering into force, it is still unfulfilled. Our new analysis with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social:

Step 3️⃣: Make enforcement visible. Member States must publish comparable data on monitoring, control effort, infringements and sanctions. Cross-border checks must connect vessel identity to enforcement decisions and public funding records.

Europe's fish populations are in crisis. The Landing Obligation must be fully implemented to stop it. Nearly 50% of Irish Sea haddock and 80% of eastern English Channel plaice discarded. 7️⃣ years after entering into force, it is still unfulfilled. Our new analysis with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social:

Step 1️⃣: Prioritise bycatch avoidance. Sorting grids reduce unwanted catches by 77-100%. We need fishery-specific technical measures, investment and incentives.