Ports in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission area, where landings of certain pelagic stocks in excess of 10 tonnes occur, will have to install landing monitoring systems, according to the position of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries, which on Wednesday 23 January adopted (15 votes in favour, 9 against and 2 abstentions) a draft report by Francisco Guerreiro (Greens/EFA, Portuguese) amending the European Commission’s initial proposal.
The proposal aims to...