EU STRIKES FISHING ACCESS DEALS WITH SÃO TOMÉ E PRINCIPE, MADAGASCAR: EU INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FISHING ROUND UP
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna. However, it providers for increased access over the current fishing agreement that expires this December, allowing 88 rather than 80 boats to fish off the island: 44 seiners and 44 long-liners. As usual, the quid pro quo is money, with the Commission promising that the EU will pay Euro ...
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