INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP – GUINEA BISSAU FISHING ACCESS AGREEMENT
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has signed another fishing access deal with a weak African state - this time with west Africa's Guinea Bissau, which has recently been criticised for being a staging point for Europe-bound illegal narcotics from south America. The agreement negotiated by the European Commission follows the recent deal with the Ivory Coast, which has been divided in two by civil war.This latest deal will last four years and allows EU fishing fleets to take shrimps, finfish, cephalopods and also includes special rights for tuna. While fishing ...
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