Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain), the European Parliament rapporteur on the proposal transposing the provisions of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) into EU law, has found there to be contradiction between EU and ICCAT transhipment rules for large pelagic longline vessels.
Parliament’s fisheries committee will discuss Mato’s draft report on the ICCAT rules and the swordfish fishery in the waters of that regional fisheries organisation (see Europe 11672)...