Brussels, 17/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - The chair of the European Parliament (EP) fisheries committee, Gabriel Mato Adrover (EPP, Spain), has written to Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries, to ask her to carry out an additional impact study on the controversial proposal aiming to phase out over a two-year period the fishing gears which are most harmful to the deep-sea ecosystem, namely bottom trawls and bottom gill nets. This could have the effect of postponing the...