In a press release dated Monday 8 January, the association Bloom, backed by around ten other NGOs for defence of the oceans (including Our Fish, Blue Marine Foundation, etc.), accuses the European Commission of having been influenced by Dutch fisheries lobbies and of having ignored the unfavourable opinion of its scientific committee when it proposed, in 2006, to authorise electric fishing by way of derogation.
The derogation in question is the most problematical point of the regulation on...