Brussels, 24/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Parliamentary fisheries committee backs the aims of the Commission proposal presented in October 2005 to reduce eel fishing in the EU (see EUROPE 9043). On 19 April, in adopting the draft report from Albert Jan Maat (EPP-ED, Netherlands) on measures to rebuild eel stocks, the EP fisheries committee, like most Member States, opposed the suggested emergency measure closing eel fishing from 1st to 15 of every month until national eel management...