EU ROUND UP – FISHING FLEETS FAIL TO EXPLOIT MAURITANIA ACCESS
December 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FISHING access deal with Mauritania - hailed by the European Commission as "the most important fisheries agreement concluded by the EU with a third country" - could be renegotiated because European fishermen have shunned its opportunities. The Commission has now asked EU ministers for permission to renegotiate the two year deal, which would otherwise have been renewed largely unchanged next August (2008).
Under the existing agreement, about 200 EU vessels have the right to catch crustaceans (mainly shrimps), hake and other demersal ...
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