VIBEG steering group

Fisheries Measures at Protected North Sea Sites (VIBEG) is a steering group set up by the Minister. As national and international policy is developed, its members inform and support one another. The group’s members represent the World Wildlife Fund, the North Sea Foundation, the Dutch Fish Product Board, the Federatie Vissersverenigingen (the Dutch federation of fishing associations), IMARES Wageningen and various departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, and the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

Information is not restricted to the group’s members. On the contrary, on behalf of the Minister, discussions are held regularly with other parties who register their vested interest in the protected sites in the North Sea. These include representatives of Sportvisserij Nederland (Dutch anglers association), Greenpeace, the companies based at the ports, parties involved in offshore oil and gas and parties engaged in wind energy and windmill production.