{"id":4383,"date":"2012-05-10T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2012\/05\/10\/meps-take-stand-on-cfp\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:51:00","slug":"meps-take-stand-on-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/meps-take-stand-on-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs take stand on CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a vote on the reform of the EU\u2019s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on 8 May, the members of the Parliament overwhelmingly supported measures to recover fish stocks, promote environmental protection of the marine environment and reduce fishing pressure while supporting sustainable fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the measure include: Commitment to restore fish populations above MSY by 2015 and to improve the environmental standards of fishing to achieve healthy seas by 2020; support for preferential access to fishing for the most sustainable operations; rejection of the proposed mandatory transferable fishing concessions (TFCs); support for a requirement for EU Member States to assess their fishing capacity and adjust it to sustainable fishing limits; and support for the principle of granting EU subsidies only if recipients comply with EU fishing rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament environment committee has been praised for its strong stand on EU fisheries reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}