Brussels, 27/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Following a long night of tense negotiations, European fisheries ministers managed to reach an agreement on Wednesday 27 February in Brussels, on the gradual ban on non-marketable discards. This agreement seeks to restrict wasteful catches and make EU fishing more sustainable.
The practice of discarding fish consists in throwing non-marketable fish overboard because they are too small, damaged or cannot be included in quotas. They represent a quarter...