As compared to other countries, France has been involved very lately in the discussion about fisheries ecolabelling. Reluctant to adopt the existing ecolabels, the professional organisations, the Ministry of
food, agriculture and fisheries and the European Commission itself tend to create their own label guidelines to take into consideration other...
Some recent studies have shown the outstanding price linkages at the global scale between the cannery-grade
tuna markets over the last decade. When it comes to price transmission along the European value chains, opposite results between the two major species (skipjack and yellowfin) are found: the market for final goods...
Since January 2008, the fishing agreements between the European Union and ACP (African, Caribbean, Pacific) countries have changed to comply with WTO rules and improve the management of the fisheries. However, the poor countries depend perhaps too heavily on foreign aids to impose any management system to the distant water...