Brussels, 02/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - The members of the European Parliament fisheries committee said on Tuesday 1 December, that they were reasonably satisfied with the outcome of the meeting in Recife, Brazil, in mid-November of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). They were, however, critical of the derogation granted to Morocco on the use of drift gillnets.
The European Commission representative told the committee that, in general terms, there...