CANADA – EU CLAIM
September 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIETHE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves. Its federal fisheries minister Robert Thibault has claimed in the Canadian press that with Ireland lifting its objections to the UN treaty, the EU should agree to ratify en bloc this month. This should ease difficulties faced by Canadian fishery patrols checking EU trawlers for illicit ...
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