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Stop overfishing: MEPs vote for ambitious reform

EU News 55/2013

6 February 2013
European Parliament

A major reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which aims to cut fishing to sustainable stock levels, end dumping at sea, and base long-term planning on sound scientific data, was approved by Parliament on Wednesday. Overfishing is widely seen as the worst failure of the current CFP, dating from 2002. The new one is to take effect in 2014.

European Commission figures suggest that 80% of Mediterranean stocks and 47% of Atlantic ones are overfished. The reform voted in plenary sets out clear and strong measures to tackle this problem.

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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20130201IPR05571/html/Stop-overfishing-MEPs-vote-for-ambitious-reform

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