Brussels, 05/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - The regulation bringing into force the requirement to land all catches may not yet have been adopted (the Council and the European Parliament have still to negotiate an agreement) but 1 January 2015 saw the end of discards at sea for certain species and in certain zones, by virtue of the reform of the common fisheries policy.
The European Commission states in a press release that only pelagic fisheries (anchovy, sardine, mackerel, herring), industrial...