BRUSSELS TO ALLOW GERMANS, FRENCH, POLISH AND SPANISH OFF BY-CATCH ADMIN HOOK
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed letting fishing crews from Germany, France, Poland and Spain avoid detailed cod catch controls and potentially time-consuming statistical declarations for catches in the North Sea and off western Scotland. Brussels wants European Union (EU) ministers to allow selected groups of vessels to avoid following special fishing effort rules imposed by the EU's 2008 regulation 1342/2008 on cod stock conservation. This is allowable where boats are targeting different species and can demonstrate cod bycatch does not ...
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