This report provides an ex ante evaluation of a possible Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) and Protocol1 between the European Union (EU) and Republic of Ghana. The EU distant-water fishing fleets have been targeting tropical tunas in the Gulf of Guinea since the 1950s, today...

The European Fisheries Fund (EFF) was established under the 2007-2013 programming period to replace the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) in place under the previous multiannual programme (2000-2006). Each Member State (MS) had to present one single Operational Programme (OP),...

Scientific advice on the concept of surplus, as defined by the UNCLOS, was provided for three types of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs): i) Mixed SFPAs in West Africa, ii) Tuna SFPAs and iii) SFPA with Greenland. For Mixed SFPAs in West Africa, methods for surplus computation...

The current socio-economic challenges facing the fisheries sector in Europe call for a wide range of measures to improve the livelihoods of fishermen and their families, as well as other inhabitants of fisheries communities. One possible option opened up by Axis 4 of the European Fisheries Fund...