date:Jun 06, 2012
The measures have already been agreed by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
The Parliaments rapporteur on the issue, Spanish Green MEP Ral Romeva i Rueda, had wanted the EU to go further, but his amendments were voted down in the Parliaments fisheries committee in December.
The new rules, which deal with how fish can be caught and how they are landed, will be valid until the end of 2014. They impose a reduction on the number of EU vessels allowed to ca