Brussels, 18/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - At an informal meeting in Brussels on Monday 18 February, EU fisheries ministers gave general backing to strengthening and updating fisheries control rules. A large number of states, however, opposed increasing the control powers of the European Commission and the Community Fisheries Control Agency (provisionally located in Brussels, but due to move to its permanent base in Vigo in July). Several countries noted that control was the responsibility of...