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The latest round of grants under the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) will give support to 68 projects across the Scottish sea fisheries, aquaculture and fish processing sectors.

The Scottish government has said that at today’s EU Council meeting “the fight to protect the future of Scotland’s fishing industry reaches boiling point”.

The Agriculture & Fisheries Council is meeting in Luxembourg today and is expected to reach political agreement on the two main proposals within the framework of the Common Fisheries Policy reform.

The European Commission has set out its intentions for fixing fishing opportunities for 2013, which it says shows that improvements made to end overfishing are working.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has called for greater awareness of the benefits of Omega 3 after receiving his own test results at Stirling Universitys world-leading Institute for Aquaculture.

Today is World Oceans Day and OCEAN2012 is launching the third European Fish Weeks, when European citizens will organise public events to raise awareness of overfishing and of decision-makers’ responsibility to end…