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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9511
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Italy and France exceed their bluefin tuna quota

Brussels, 27/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - The day after the announcement of the opening of infringement procedures against seven member states which fish bluefin tuna in the waters of the East Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg acknowledged on Thursday 27 September that only the Italian and French fishermen had exceeded their 2007 quotas. Italy and France will, therefore, have to pay back the other EU countries, including Spain and Portugal, which have been...

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