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The European Commission (EC) released last week its annual proposal for fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea 2018. With this proposal, the EC intends to ban for the first time all marine eel commercial and recreational fisheries in the EU waters of the Baltic Sea for 2018. This radical measure comes as a surprise to fisheries associations which were not previously consulted. Such a prohibition would hit particularly small-scale fishers that are critically dependent on this species.

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Members of Europêche today met with the Director General of DG MARE, Joao Aguiar Machado to express their concerns over the current negotiations regarding possible restrictions on bottom trawling in the deep sea which could see a ban from 800m introduced, even for already regulated areas in international waters.

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Le 7 août, la Fédération de Russie a décrété l’interdiction sur l’importation d’une gamme de produits issus de la pêche et l’agriculture française pour la durée d’un an, ou du moins jusqu’à ce les sanctions prononcées par l’Ouest envers la Russie soient levées.

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El 7 de agosto, la Federación de Rusia emitió una prohibición de las importaciones de la UE en una variedad de mariscos y productos agrícolas por un año, o al menos hasta que se levanten las sanciones impuestas por Occidente en Rusia.

On the 7th August, the Russian Federation issued a ban on imports from the EU on a range of seafood and agricultural products for a year, or at least until the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia are lifted.