During the annual structural dialogue with the European Parliament’s fisheries committee on Thursday 23 March, European Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella urged a change of mind-set in the Mediterranean, where fishermen often try to dodge all regulation on the grounds that theirs is a small-scale, artisanal fishery.
In Malta on 30 March, all the countries of the Mediterranean will adopt a political declaration on the future of Mediterranean fisheries, Commissioner Vella told the...