Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III

Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda

Added: 33b. Calls for support to be made available to the fisheries sector to enable it to address, in an ambitious and practical manner, the rise in production costs faced by fisheries, particularly small-scale, artisanal and coastal fisheries; calls for the EMFAF to focus on improving fleets’ safety and working, health and hygiene conditions on board, on establishing compensation and income support mechanisms for fishers in the light of the instability of the profession, and on supporting an integrated maritime policy (promoting marine research and the development of maritime technology and engineering in all its forms, including the building of more environmentally sustainable ships, and port infrastructure under public management, which supports fishing, thus modernising the sector, ensuring the sector’s socio-economic viability and the sustainability of resources and protecting the outermost regions’ role and specific characteristics);

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE760.473