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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10614

15 May 2012
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) fisheries
Taxpayers' money subsidising overfishing (NGO)

Brussels, 14/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Saturday 12 May, the organisation OCEAN2012 published a document which claims that European taxpayers' money is “fuelling overfishing”. OCEAN2012, a coalition of over 160 organisations dedicated to ending overfishing in the EU, says that, in Community waters, 63% of assessed stocks in the Atlantic, 82% in the Mediterranean and four out of the six stocks in the Baltic are overfished. “As stocks have declined, subsidies have fuelled overfishing...

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