The Directorate of Fisheries’ shall promote profitable economic activity through sustainable and user-oriented management of marine resources and the marine environment.
The Directorate of Fisheries’ role is:
to provide professional input to the policy making process by way of
analyses, statistics and advice
legislature and regulative work and regulation planning development
to be an efficient manager by
implementing political decisions
processing applications and appeals
conducting monitoring and control
to be a partner through
active cooperation with trade and industry, the research community and other public services
knowledge sharing with various stakeholders and the general public
MSC certification of Dutch trawl fleet partly suspended Netherlands
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announces that the certificates for sole, beam trawling and flyshoot and otter trawl fishing in the North Sea will be suspended with effect from April 25, 2024. In...