“The time has come” to digitalise the catch certification scheme and exploit its potential to prevent fishery products stemming from products from illegal fishing from entering the EU market, stressed the European Commission in a report on illegal fishing adopted on Wednesday 17 April.
According to this report, which examines the implementation of Regulation 1005/2008 establishing a system to prevent and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the ‘CATCH’...