A new analysis of joint EU, Norwegian and UK shing practices claims to show how for the last 20 years the trio has “consistently set annual shing limits for shared stocks above scientic advice”, according to NGO Our Fish.
“Norway might be overshing 25% less than the UK and the EU — but it only makes the country the ‘least bad’ of the trio,” it said. “The opaque process of negotiating these ‘shared stocks’ allows the EU and Norway to blame each other, so while both talk themselves up as ocean and climate action leaders on the global stage, they are both guilty of driving ocean degradation.”
New study finds EU, Norway regularly set quotas 11% higher than science advises – Undercurrent News/