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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11290

9 April 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) fisheries
Limitations of Danish fishing quotas system

Brussels, 08/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament fisheries committee held a debate on Tuesday 31 March on the systems used by EU countries for allocating fishing quotas and once again highlighted the negative effect of individual transferable fishing quotas.

Kim Stobberup presented a study on the criteria for allocation of fishing opportunities in the European Union (study carried out by Blomeyer & Sanz S.L). Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) are not the panacea for...