Brussels, 28/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission adopted a communication on Wednesday 28 March, in which it advocates a new policy of gradual elimination of discarding at sea, a common practice among fishermen consisting of throwing back some of their catch, for various reasons: on-board sorting of the best specimens, fish caught below the minimum market size, risk of surpassing quotas, saturated markets, lack of markets, etc. The Commission defends a ban on discarding marine...