Press Release: UK spearheads significant step forward in EU fish negotiations

Following difficult and lengthy negotiations at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting in Brussels on 13-14 May 2013, EU Member States agreed a package of reforms to implement a discards ban, to make fishing more sustainable and to give countries the ability to make decisions regionally.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-414_en.htm http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-414_en.htm

BBC News, 15.05.13: UK claims breakthrough in fish dumping talks http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22536037

ESO: Background information: The EU fish discard ban: Where’s the catch? http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eu-fish-discard-ban-wheres-the-catch/

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