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UK fishing industry trials look at how a discards ban may work in practice

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Grant Course, Senior Marine Trials Officer at the Marine Management Organisation, writes about how trials are looking at how a fish discards ban may work. Fisheries Minister George Eustice recently said that the UK is: “committed to further extension of …

New Common Fisheries Policy to transform fishing practices in Europe

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An historic deal to reform the broken Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has today been agreed by the EU Parliament and will become law on 1 January 2014. The final deal follows more than three years of difficult negotiations, in which …