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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10451

14 September 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/fisheries
Oceana slams scale of fishing fleet subsidies

Brussels, 13/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Oceana, an international organisation which works to protect the world's oceans, has put a figure of €3.3 billion on the amount paid out in subsidies to EU fishing vessels in 2009. This is more than three times the official European Commission figure, which only includes European Fisheries Fund data. In a report published on Tuesday 13 September, Oceana calls for an end to the subsidies which are increasing fishing capacity and calculates that the...

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