Brussels, 19/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - Iceland and the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, have sharply criticised the call from a number of EU countries for sanctions to be imposed on them for the large mackerel quotas they have taken for themselves (see EUROPE 10657).
These calls are “essentially propaganda”, Icelandic Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson told AFP. “The mackerel feed and grow in Icelandic waters and, in so doing, harm other fish. We...