SPANISH FISHERMEN ESCAPE WEST OF SCOTLAND COD CONTROLS
July 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved lifting special cod conservation administrative controls from 88 Spanish boats fishing for hake with bottom trawls off the west of Scotland. The move is permitted under the EU's (EC) No 1342/2008 regulation for long-term cod controls, which generally insists on fishing boats taking special care to note and control cod bycatches in conservation areas. In this instance, however, ministers agreed with the Spanish government and the European Commission these bottom trawls yield so few cod, imposing these ...
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