The European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Virginijus Sinkevičius, said on Thursday 12 May that he intends to take action to protect marine protected areas from the effects of bottom trawling.
In front of the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries, he considered it premature, in view of the demands for reform made by Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain) and Clara Aguilera (S&D, Spain), to launch a review of the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) as...