According to Europeche the ban, agreed yesterday by Parliament, the Council and the European Commission is arbitrary and only responds to political interests and not to real environmental threats. The ban is included in the regulation of deep-sea fisheries agreed upon yesterday.
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.
Le Conseil Pêche est arrivé hier soir à un accord sur les possibilités de pêche pour 2015 pour certains stocks en eaux profondes, c’est la première fois depuis les décisions sur l’interdiction des rejets et du Rendement Maximal Durable (RMD) décidées sous la réforme de la Politique Commune de la Pêche.
El Consejo de Pesca llegó a un acuerdo político sobre las posibilidades de pesca para 2015 de determinadas poblaciones de aguas profundas anoche por primera vez desde las nuevas y duras reglas de prohibición de los descartes y el rendimiento máximo sostenible (RMS) que se han decidido en base a la reformada política pesquera común.
The Fisheries Council came to a political agreement over the fishing opportunities for 2015 for certain deep-sea stocks last night, the first time since the tough new rules of a discard ban and maximum sustainable yield (MSY) were decided under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.