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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9370

21 February 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

20/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 17 February, an international group of marine environment experts called for an end to public subsidies to fuel for industrial fishing on the high seas, which is exhausting fish stocks and destroying the ecosystem. Industrial fishing vessels are travelling thousands of kilometres and are fishing at greater and greater depths, said Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute. Vessels operating more than 200 nautical miles from the coast, outside...

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