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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9529
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Spain calls for compensation due to closure of red tuna fisheries

Brussels, 23/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - At the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of Tuesday 23 October, Spain explained that the closure of red tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic decided by the European Commission on 21 September 2007 had caused considerable economic harm to fishing enterprises which had not had time to fully use up their quotas. Spain has asked the European Commission to give it extra fishing quotas in 2008 to make up for the unused quotas for 2007....

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