Spain supports EC proposal for an absolute ban on driftnets

Monday, May 26th 2014 - 13:14 UTC

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Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA) publicly announced its satisfaction with the proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council presented by the European Commission (EC) for the banning of driftnet fishing. Read full article

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Trunce!
Spain. Guardians of the seas.

http://cloudfront-files-1.iwatchnews.org/documents/pdfs/lootingtheseas_II_3_col.pdf
May 26th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
Spain has far too many fishing vessels. Needs to be reduced to about 4,000. How many at the moment? 17,500. For what? For theft!
May 26th, 2014 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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falklandlad
That Spain should agree is but one step forward and a good one. However what is needed is universal implementatin of the drift net ban on fishingand imposition of swift fines on flag states who continue to allow this indiscriminate way of fishing.
May 26th, 2014 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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BOTINHO
Ola Trunce -

Good link. I enjoyed reading that.
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