Susan Steele, the next new Executive Director of the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), said on Tuesday 25 May that her aim was to increase the number of inspection vessels at the agency, based in Vigo, Spain, to two and then three.
At a hearing before the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries, Ms Steele, who will take up her post on 1 September 2021, stressed the need to step up training for EU inspectors (common curriculum, e-learning platform). “These ‘level playing...