Toward a sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors

Reference A9-0089/2022Committee PECHClimate and environment Food and agriculture

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How the groups voted

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The Left39

2517676%

S&D145

132011299%

Greens/EFA71

The European Parliament adopted by 494 votes to 66, with 66 abstentions, a resolution on ‘Toward a sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors’.Members welcomed the Commission's new strategy for a sustainable blue economy in the EU but deplored the lack of specific objectives for the different sectors, in particular fisheries and aquaculture as important sectors of the blue economy.Parliament advocated a definition of the blue economy that is broad enough to include all sectoral and cross-sectoral activities related to oceans, seas and coastal areas, including direct and indirect support activities, and to take into account the fisheries sector. It stressed the need to promote an integrated…