“There are environmental factors behind the decline in fish stocks”, said the rapporteur on Mediterranean fisheries, Raffaele Stancanelli (ECR, Italy), in Strasbourg on Monday 4 October. The plenary vote on this own-initiative report takes place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 October.
According to him, some EU countries have seen their fleets and fishing crews halved over the past 20 years, with “production falling by more than 50% in favour of imports, which are currently around 85% for...