Tag: UK's fishing industry

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

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

  

  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.