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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10576

17 March 2012
SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) fisheries
General approach on ending finning of sharks

Brussels, 16/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Ministers is expected to come to a qualified majority decision on Monday 19 March to adopt a general approach on the text ending exemptions to the general rule which, from 2003, has banned the practice by fishermen of removing the fins of sharks and throwing the remainder of the body back into the sea (finning). The Portuguese and Spanish delegations will vote against this general approach. Spain would have liked a temporary derogation...

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