Fish Farce: It's High Time for Rethink On Eu

The Citizen Gloucestershire › November 23, 2007

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Summary

Given the history of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, with all its waste, excesses and corruption, we should not be surprised by the recent news about fish being thrown back dead into the sea having been already caught.

But even by the EU's extravagant wastefulness, it is indeed wrong and immoral that between 40% and 60% of caught fish are thrown back dead because of the quota system which exists.

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Fish Farce: It's High Time for Rethink On Eu

The problem is that the EU's quota system on fishing restricts the amount of fish that trawl...

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