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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10418
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/fisheries

Start of radical overhaul of fisheries policy

Brussels, 13/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission, on Wednesday 13 July, adopted proposals to end overfishing, return fish stocks to sustainable levels and bring an end to fishermen's dependence on subsidies. It proposes that the wasteful practice of discarding fish at sea be ended, that a new system of transferable quotas be introduced and that, by 2015, stocks must be fished at sustainable levels that produce the “maximum sustainable yield” that is, the highest catch that...

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