30/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - Agreement on deep water fishing agreement. Negotiators from the European Parliament and Council reached an agreement on Thursday 30 June on the deepwater fisheries agreement (EUROPE will be returning to this agreement). This type of fishing will be banned if it is deeper than 800 m in the North East Atlantic, in an effort to protect vulnerable final ecosystems. A different provision has been added to the regulation: for deepwater fishing deeper than 400 m and if...