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2009

Oceana satisfied with the arrest of three owners of illegal driftnetters in southern Italy (OCEANA PR 2009-03-27)

The European Court of Justice condemns France for using driftnets (OCEANA PR 2009-03-05)

2008

Italian television channel RAI 3 exposes the use of illegal driftnets in Calabria (OCEANA PR 2008-11-17)

Oceana insists: the ferrettara is an illegal driftnet (OCEANA PR 2008-07-16)

Oceana discovers italian fishermen using illegal driftnets in Tunisian waters (OCEANA PR 2008-07-10)

Oceana appeals to Berlusconi's goverment to put a definitive end to driftnets (OCEANA PR 2008-06-08)

Oceana presents evidence and recommendations in Brussels for the fight against illegal fishing within the european fleet (OCEANA PR 2008-05-14)

French driftnetters will not fish in 2008 (OCEANA PR 2008-03-17)

Oceana welcomes French government recognition of the illegality of driftnets, 5 years after they were banned (OCEANA PR 2008-01-22)

Driftnets: The prohibition in the Baltic is in effect (OCEANA PR 2008-01-03) Oceana insists that the problems encountered in the Mediterranean must not be repeated.

2007

Oceana interceps a moroccan driftnetter fishing inside the Alboran island reserve (OCEANA PR 2007-08-16)

Morocco promotes the plan to eliminate driftnets from their fleet (OCEANA PR 2007-07-27)

Oceana welcomes another step forward on the long road to eliminate illegal driftnets in the European Union (OCEANA PR 2007-06-29)

Oceana identifies 84 italian driftnetters during its 2007 campaign (OCEANA PR 2007-06-22)

Oceana criticises the failure of EU Fisheries Ministers to stamp down on illegal driftnet fishing in the Mediterranean (OCEANA PR 2007-06-11)

Oceana releases the footage of illegal fishing activities that the french driftnetters tried to avoid being taken (OCEANA PR 2007-05-29)

Oceana fishery research vessel attacked by fleet of french driftnetters (OCEANA PR 2007-05-22)

Oceana asks the new french president to eliminate driftnets from the Mediterranean (OCEANA PR 2007-05-18)

The Commission corroborates Oceana's complaints regarding the use of driftnets in the EU (OCEANA PR 2007-04-12)

The European Union annually provides €1.25 million for the elimination of driftnets in Morocco (OCEANA PR 2007-03-02)

The Italian government orders the confiscation of driftnets found aboard vessels at port (OCEANA PR 2007-01-12)

Hundreds of tons of swordfish caught illegally by Morocco are sold in Spain (OCEANA PR 2007-01-08) Oceana presents a report analyzing the activities of hundreds of Moroccan fishing vessels operating in the Alboran Sea and the Straits of Gibraltar and using driftnets banned by the United Nations.

2006

Oceana presents evidence in an international meeting of mediterranean countries that Italy and France are using illegal driftnets (OCEANA PR 2006-11-08)

One hundred fifty morrocan driftnetters fish illegally in the Alboran Sea and the Straits of Gibraltar (OCEANA PR 2006-08-25)

Oceana investigates french ports in the Mediterranean to uncover an illegal fleet of driftnettsers (OCEANA PR 2006-08-04)

Oceana asks the italian fisheries minister to finally make the european ban on driftnets effective (OCEANA PR 2006-07-14)

Oceana warns of suspicious interactions between italian driftnetters and purse-seiners at tuna-fattening farms in sicilian waters (OCEANA PR 2006-07-04)

Oceana investigators uncover scandalous fishing practices: a large fleet of illegal driftnetters are fishing out of sicilian and calabrian ports (OCEANA PR 2006-06-29)

Oceana reports dozens of illegal italian driftnetters fishing in the Thyrrenian Sea (OCEANA PR 2006-06-28)

Oceana Intercepts Two Italian Boats Fishing with Illegal Driftnets (OCEANA PR 2006-06-13)

Spanish Musician Miguel Bosé Boards the Oceana Ranger to Combat Driftnet Use (OCEANA PR 2006-06-05)

Oceana patrolling the Mediterranean in search of illegal drifnetters (OCEANA PR 2006-05-31)

Italian coastguards detain a fishing boat with illegal driftnets denounced last year by Oceana in a report to the European Union (OCEANA PR 2006-05-16)

2005

Millions of Euros from EU funds have been spent on the financing of driftnets, despite the fact that these are prohibited (OCEANA PR 2005-09-13)

Oceana provokes the arrest of illegal driftnetters by Italian Coastguards (OCEANA PR 2005-08-02)

The Oceana Ranger documents illegal driftnetting in Southern Italy (OCEANA PR 2005-07-28)

2004

Oceana is calling on the EU to help eliminate driftnetting in Morocco (OCEANA PR 2004-11-11)


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