In an exchange of views with the European Commissioner for Environment and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, on Thursday 11 June, MEPs on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries regretted that the ‘Biodiversity 2030’ strategy makes fishermen the main culprits in the degradation of the oceans.
“The Commission only thinks about fish, but we also think about fishermen”, warned EPP group coordinator Gabriel Mato from Spain. “There is a lot of talk about farmers being the...