Galicia accepts need to eliminate fishery discards, but asks for a 'gradual approach'

Monday, April 27th 2015 - 21:36 UTC

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Spain's main fishing region Galicia admits the need to eliminate fishery discards but emphasized it must be a gradual process since it is necessary to preserve the social, economic and environmental objectives of this activity which is of central importance for the economy and jobs. Read full article

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Leiard
“when the remaining regulations have been adapted to the new concept, it could enter into force on discards landing”

It's not a new concept for the rest of the EU so why should Spain be able to get away with it
Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
NO!!! Stop NOW! Anyone with any environmental concerns, such as spain now pretends it has, would have been working to reduce discards for years. What economic sense is there in spending hours or days trawling up fish only to throw them back. Probably dead. Consider the southern coast of spain. Where do the poaching boats go? British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW) because the greedy spanish have caught everything in their own waters. They now even rake the seabed! Spain needs to be stopped.
Apr 28th, 2015 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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juliano
bela galicia...
Apr 30th, 2015 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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