date:Dec 19, 2012
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) advocates praised the European Parliaments vote today to support a draft report on fisheries reform, which included five items on the WWFs wish list.
The parliaments fisheries committee, meeting in Brussels, Belgium this week, voted 13 to 10 in favor of the report, produced by Ulrike Rodust, on the common fisheries policy basic regulation, which the WWF called the key to sustainable fisheries in the EU.
The vote followed discussion of nearly 3,000 amendments to the me