26/01/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 26 January, the European Parliament's fisheries committee recommended the approval of the new partnership agreement on fisheries between the European Union and the Cook Islands (see EUROPE 11682). The four-year protocol would allow four purse seiners (three Spanish and one French) to fish for tuna. In exchange, the EU would pay the Cook Islands compensation of €385,000 for the first and the second years and €350,000 for the third and fourth...