Brussels, 22/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - Agreement on the regulation putting the landing obligation rules (ending of discards) into effect is the number one priority of the Latvian Presidency, Agriculture minister Janis Duklavs told the European Parliament fisheries committee on Thursday 22 January.
Several MEPs asked what the Presidency intended to do on deep-water trawling (Parliament adopted its opinion in December 2013). MEPs also criticised the proposal banning drift gill-nets and went...