In Strasbourg on Tuesday 16 January, the European Parliament adopted its position, amendment by amendment, on the regulation on the conservation of fish resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures (see EUROPE 11909), taking a position against the authorisation on an experimental basis in the European Union of electro fishing, or electric pulse trawling, in the North Sea.
The four amendments proposing an end to the derogations allowing pulse trawling to be...