EU ROUND-UP – MOROCCO, MAURITANIA, QUOTA TIMETABLE
May 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament have approved a new fishing agreement with Morocco, despite controversy over its covering waters off the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. The Polisario Liberation Front has since 1975 been fighting Morocco for self-determination over the largely desert territory. Offshore, however, its Atlantic Ocean waters are teeming with life. The fishing deal will run until 2010 and involve 119 annual fishing licences, including 100 for Spain,
14 for Portugal, 4 for France and 1 for Italy, ...
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