Europêche: NEAFC ‘dead end’ shows fresh approach needed for shared fisheries management

Blue whiting

Decision-making has become deeply flawed and needs urgent review, insists European fishing industry body

The lack of progress made at 44th Annual Meeting of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) in reaching an agreement on Northeast Atlantic mackerel and blue whiting catch allocations again showed that decision-making in the region’s fisheries management has become deeply flawed and needs urgent review, insists European fishing industry body Europêche.

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