date:Jun 14, 2012
nyon added: For far too long overly detailed decisions have been taken from Brussels and fishermen throughout Europe have been micro-managed. The agreement we reached today will hopefully see some of that power return back to Member States, working with their fishermen.
A statement from the seafood authority Seafish welcomed the agreement but highlighted two key challenges. First, no matter what timescale is eventually agreed for phasing out discards, we must do more to quantify the level of di