EU aquaculture left behind: FEAP condemns structural bias in Commission’s CFP evaluation

The Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) issues a stark warning over the European Commission’s evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) Regulation 1380/2013, published on 30 April 2026. While welcoming the Commission’s effort to assess the past decade, FEAP concludes that the evaluation is structurally biased against aquaculture, fails to draw necessary conclusions from clear evidence of stagnation, and offers no credible foundation for the upcoming 2040 Vision for Fisheries and Aquaculture.