The fight against illegal fishing would be more effective if there were a European approach, including import controls and the digitalisation of ‘pirate’ catches, according to members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries on Thursday 7 December.
Unanimously adopting the draft report by Nuno Melo (EPP, Portuguese) on this issue (24 votes in favour), MEPs believe that potential loopholes could be avoided if all EU countries had identical procedures for applying the rules...