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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7942

9 April 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/fishing
EP stigmatises dangers of sea fisherman profession

Brussels, 09/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - By approving, last Thursday in Strasbourg, the report by Rosa Miguelez Ramos (ESP, Spanish), the European Parliament echoed the warning made by the International Labour Office (ILO) which, estimating, in 1997, at 24,000 the annual total of deaths of sea fishermen in the world and at 24 million, the serious accidents. At the Union level, the statistics available on accidents at sea (160 deaths and 2,527 injured in 1998) confirm that fishing is a very...

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