Brussels, 29/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - As WWF's “More Fish” petition, critical of the common fisheries policy (CFP), is about to reach 100,000 signatures, the organisation asked the European Parliament (EP) fisheries committee, on Tuesday 28 February, to end overfishing in Europe. WWF says that 75% of assessed EU fish stocks are overexploited and the EU is losing approximately €3 billion per year in potential income from a failure to manage fisheries sustainably.
With the EP due to...