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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9593
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/fisheries

Parliament supports gradual elimination of discards

Brussels, 01/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament (EP) has sided with the European Commission in calling for an end to discarding - a common practice which sees fishermen throw unwanted fish or shellfish overboard. On Thursday 31 January, the EP adopted the report by Carl Schlyter (Greens/EFA, Sweden) by 606 votes to 22, and welcomed the Commission's new attempt to encourage debate on this serious subject “with a view to finally shifting the emphasis of the Common Fisheries...

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