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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9876

4 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
Commission criticises Iceland's mackeral quotas

Brussels, 03/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is very concerned about Iceland's recent decision to declare a unilateral mackerel quota of 112,000 tonnes for 2009. “In setting such an exaggerated level of quota, Iceland is acting in contradiction with its international obligations to cooperate on the conservation of this key resource in the North-East Atlantic,” commented EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg, adding that “an Icelandic fishery of that dimension completely...

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