EU sustainable fishing fails because of fleet overcapacity, says Court of Auditors

Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 16:15 UTC

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The European Court of Auditors, evaluating whether EU measures have contributed to adapting the capacity of EU fishing fleets to available fishing opportunities concluded that current measures have “failed” mostly blaming the ongoing overcapacity of the fishing fleet. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Good article.

The over-capacity does not increase linearly as the stocks decline,
but (and because) there is always a 'social imperative' to preserve fishing communities ability to carry on their historic profession when all rational human beings would recognise that if there are no fish left to catch the community is living out an illusion - if not a a death wish, a death acceptance.
Western multi-national democratic processes are so woefully inadequate in this sphere.
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