Brussels, 30/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - NGOs Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana and WWF ushered in a new era in fishing transparency, on Wednesday 29 July, with the launch of an online database, showing that 15,264 EU vessels were authorised to fish outside EU waters between 2010 and 2014.
This is the first time that the figures have been made public, following an access-to-information request by the NGOs to the European Commission. Maria José Cornax, fisheries campaign director...