EU ROUND UP – ILLEGAL AND ILLICIT FISHING STILL ON THE RISE IN EUROPE SAYS COMMISSION
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL SPANISH and Italian fishing businesses and regulators have been blasted by the European Commission for condoning or participated in unauthorised or illegal fishing practices. In the latest statistical report on such problems, which compared national fleets during 2005, the Commission notes that the number of cases was at all time high - 10,443 across the EU, compared with 9,660 in 2004. Unauthorised fishing was the most common offence, covering 23% of cases; the storing, processing, placing for sale and transporting fishery products not meeting ...
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