The European Commission welcomed, on Thursday 30 March, the signing of the MedFish4Ever ministerial declaration which contains a raft of initiatives for the next ten years to save the Mediterranean’s fish stocks and protect the region’s environmental and economic wealth.
The targets are ambitious but realistic, the Commission says in a press release.
Over 300,000 people are directly employed on fishing vessels in the Mediterranean and many more indirect jobs depend on the sector. The...