The 278-kg bluefin tuna was sold to the owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant, but experts say demand for the fish has made it an endangered species.

Environmental crisis requires bold decisions. However, fisheries ministers keep setting catch limits too high even though overfishing goes against the law and costs us jobs, food, and money.

Experts said EU leaders need to act to prevent the collapse of the region's fish stocks.

Diet is the primary way in which people in Europe are exposed to mercury

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In a rush? Here are eight stories from around Europe that you need to know about today, Wednesday, August 29.

Some 700 dolphins washed up dead on French beaches over the winter, figures reveal, most of them victims of the fishing industry.

20 Italian bottom-trawling vessels were caught fishing within closed areas of the Strait of Sicily designed to protect young hake — the most overfished species in the Mediterranean.

A third of the the world’s commercial fish species are being caught at unsustainable levels, with overfishing at its most severe in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, according to a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The price of fish and chips could go up if Britain leaves the European Union without securing a trade deal with Brussels, it’s been claimed.

If the UK switches to sustainable fishing, it could increase its catch by almost 30% over the next decade, according to new research.

“The risk of not following scientific advice is that the EU misses its 2020 deadline in the Common Fisheries Policy to bring down fishing pressure to what is sustainable,” the report’s author, Griffin Carpenter, told Euronews.