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"Work in the fisheries is intertwined with nature, and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are already being felt. In order to address climate change, the EU put forward a new growth strategy, the European Green Deal seeks to decouple growth from resource use and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. A sustainable blue economy is recognised as crucial to this transition. However, what do these developments mean for those who work in one of its main sectors, the fisheries? This article examines two key pieces of EU fishing legislation, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the Work in Fishing Directive 2017/159, to examine the extent to which workers and the environment are addressed by them. In the CFP, while sustainability is a key objective and defined as environmental, economic and social, social sustainability remains underdeveloped. In turn, in the Work in Fishing Directive, the article shows how there are limited overlaps between the employment protections and recognition of environmental impacts. This article argues that law for the fisheries has created a false disjuncture between regulating work and the environment and this has a consequence of hindering any meaningful pursuit of sustainability or a just transition in the sector."

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