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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11715

1 February 2017
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries
Landing requirement now applies in Mediterranean
Brussels, 31/01/2017 (Agence Europe)

The provisions on banning the discarding of fish at sea now, for the first time, extend to catches in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, the European Commission points out in a press release published on Tuesday 31 January.

Ending the practice of throwing unwanted fish or species on which authorised quotas have been reached overboard and back into the sea was agreed in the reform of the common fisheries policy (CFP) in 2014.

The requirement that all catches be landed is to be phased in...

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