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Subsidies paid to owners of fishing vessels and others working in the fishing industry under the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy amount to more than €1 billion a year. Fishsubsidy.org helps people find out who gets what, and why.

Latest news & reports from the fishsubsidy.org network

First modernised, then scrapped

How the EU subsidises the scrapping of fishing vessels it previously paid to be modernised.

Italian illegal driftnets

Research reveals lawbreaking by the Italian driftnet fleet, and abuse of an EU funded driftnet conversion scheme

When crime pays

New data reveals how the EU subsidises fishing vessels that break the law

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