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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11503

3 March 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) fisheries
Greenpeace wants fishing in the north of the Barents Sea stopped

Brussels, 02/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Fishing fleets that supply major consumer brands are using giant trawlers in an area known as the 'Arctic Galapagos', according to a new Greenpeace investigation published on Wednesday 2 March.

The Barents Sea is in the Arctic Ocean between Norway and western Russia. The environmental NGO asserts that suppliers of well-known brands Birdseye, Findus and Iglo, as well as fish restaurants across Europe are implicated in this destructive form of fishing in...

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