ETF: EU plan fails workers

The European Commission’s new Action Plan for EU fisheries and aquaculture has been praised the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) for acknowledging the social dimension of fisheries and the role they play in coastal communities, but the union body has also criticised the plan’s strategy to gradually phase out bottom fishing, saying it is a sector that employs many workers.

EU Bottom Trawling

The European Commission’s new Action Plan for EU fisheries and aquaculture has been praised the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) for acknowledging the social dimension of fisheries and the role they play in coastal communities, but the union body has also criticised the plan’s strategy to gradually phase out bottom fishing, saying it is a sector that employs many workers.