Focus: EU fisheries inspectors: multinational fraud busters

European Union fisheries inspectors have been designated to check compliance with common fisheries policy rules, particularly in the framework of the EU’s international control obligations and specific control and inspection programmes adopted by the Commission for certain fisheries. When fisheries are shared between fleets from different Member States, it is of the utmost importance for inspectors to be able to intervene on any type of fishing vessel, regardless of its nationality.