EU FISHING ROUND UP – ANGOLA
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on 'biological aquatic resources'. This would have insisted any EU fishing activities under a new protocol would be joint ventures with Angolan businesses and the origin of the fish ...
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