On Wednesday 26 April, EU Commissioner for Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius was very unhappy with the way the negotiations on reforming controls were going at a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries.
On the subject of the action plan on marine ecosystems, the Commissioner wished to put out the fire that had been lit by the plan to gradually ban the use of bottom trawling by fishermen in marine protected areas (MPAs) (see EUROPE B13138A33).
“The Marine Action Plan...