Press Release: Fisheries: Commission cooperates with Portugal to enforce fisheries rules

In its efforts to ensure that fisheries rules are respected across the EU, the European Commission adopted on the 18 September 2014 an action plan to help upgrade the Portuguese fisheries control system to European standards. This plan was prepared in partnership with the Portuguese authorities to ensure that Portugal complies fully with the requirements of the EU's 2009 Fisheries Control Regulation and the new Common Fisheries Policy to achieve sustainable fishing.

The Portuguese action plan focuses largely on the catch registration system, in order to ensure that essential data to monitor catches are complete, reliable and timely. To that end, the development of IT tools to collect, share and analyse data is essential. Catch data are reported by fishermen so control authorities can monitor their fishing quotas and thus prevent overfishing.

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European Commission: RAPID: MEMO/14/532: Enforcing fisheries rules: Questions and answers on new Portuguese control action plan http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-532_en.htm

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