Funding for fisheries after 2020 must be ambitious and receive “at least the same budgetary allocation as the current one”, considers Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain), the European Parliament rapporteur on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2021-2027 (see EUROPE 12039).
Public funding is “more needed than ever to face upcoming challenges such as the landing obligation, the consequences of Brexit, MSY levels by 2020, fleet restructuration”, the draft report states. It will...