In adopting its position on the proposal on access restrictions to EU waters, the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries voted on Tuesday 12 July in favour of banning demersal seines in French territorial waters in the Channel.
The measure in question aims to authorise France to ban a harmful fishing technique, the Danish seine, near the French coast. An amendment to this effect, tabled by Caroline Roose (Greens/EFA, France), was adopted by a narrow majority (12 votes for the...