BRITISH FISHING CATCHS FALLS IN ATLANTIC, NORTH SEA, BALTIC, STEEPER THAN EUROPEAN RIVALS
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE STEEPNESS in the decline of British commercial fishing catches from 1995 until 2005 has been highlighted in a new report from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat. It shows that for the north-east Atlantic, North Sea and the Baltic, total British commercial catches fell from 905,678 tonnes in 1995 to 658,802 in 2005, a fall of 28%. Within the EU, worse performances were only registered by the fishing industries of Lithuania - down 61% (45,556 to 17,878 tonnes); Denmark - down 55% (from 1.99 million to 906,879 tonnes); Ireland - down ...
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