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Galician Ministry of the Sea (Galician Regional Government) criticizes Brussels for its slowness in solving the problem of fishing discards

Representatives of the Ministry of the Sea presented to the European Commission and the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR) the problems they are detecting in the implementation of the zero discard policy. According to Galician Ministry, the origin of the problem would be in a mechanism of distribution of fishing quota deficient […]


EU Project Finds Use for Fish Discards

The results of the EU-funded SECUREFISH project, which has trialled new methods to incorporate fish discards into nutritious and health-promoting products, were discussed at an agrifood parallel session of the EU’s Bioeconomy Investment Summit, held November 9 and 10 2015 in Brussels. See more information here