UK fishing industry questions new impractical EU rules on quotas and discards

Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

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New European Union rules on fishing quotas could have a “grave” impact on the UK's fishing industry, a House of Lords committee has said - just a day before the new policy is introduced. Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species. But under the new policy, fishers must bring the full haul back to shore. This change is to stop fish being wasted. Read full article

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DemonTree
I don't think it's the new rules that are badly designed! It's pretty damn stupid having quotas if it doesn't stop the fish being caught but just means they are wasted.
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