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EU fishing quotas are about to get a bit more exciting (if that's possible)

Posted by jamie — 13 December 2010 at 6:41pm - Comments
German agriculture minister Ilse Aigner walks past Greenpeace's trawler in Bruss
All rights reserved. Credit: Eric De Mildt/Greenpeace
German agriculture minister Ilse Aigner walks past Greenpeace's trawler in Brussels, Belgium

Every year, it’s the same. Despite evidence and advice from marine biologists that really there aren't plenty more fish in the sea, European fishing quotas are set way above what's required to halt and reverse the downward spiral of many commercial species. As Willie pointed out this time two years ago, it's a pantomime farce which comes along like clockwork in the week before Christmas. But that may be about to change.

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