Brussels, 13/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting in Brussels on Friday 10 October 2008, experts from the EU and Norway agreed on “the urgent need to consider concrete measures at the earliest opportunity, such as real-tine closures and improved gear selectivity, to tackle the problem of discards in the North Sea” fisheries industry, explains the European Commission in a press release.
The EU and Norway have “agreed that it is very difficult to entirely eliminate discarding,” but...