INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP – RUSSIAN AND EU BOOST FISHING COOPERATION
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVED cooperation between fisheries authorities in the European Union (EU) and Russia is to be established, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Brussels and Moscow. The deal covers fishing grounds in the Baltic and the north Atlantic and involves better contacts between the European Commission and Russia's state committee for fisheries. This will improve information flows on conservation, fish stocks management, fisheries trade, and on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The EU and Russia also will better ...
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