date:Jun 02, 2012
Organised by GAP2, the meeting brought together groups from Belgium, the UK, Netherlands and Denmark with disparate and often conflicting interests in the North Sea s fisheries. Their purpose was to thrash out the practicalities of one of the most controversial proposals of the EU Common Fisheries Policy reform package regionalisation.
Steve Mackinson, fisheries scientist and GAP2 coordinator said: If we want sustainable fisheries, we need to involve the full range of fishermen, scientists and