SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries

Admission at European Parliament of failure to comply with obligation to report fish catches

Brussels, 03/12/2019 (Agence Europe)

In Brussels on Monday 2 December, MEPs on the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries expressed regret about the difficulty of implementing the rule on the obligation to report fish catches (the ban on discards).

Chris Davies (Renew Europe, UK), Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries, noted that 20% of catches are discarded and that, since 2019, the mandatory landing rule is supposed to apply to 100% of stocks (with exceptions).

Clara Ulrich of Ifremer explained that...