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2020-05-25
EU biodiversity strategy ignores achievements in fisheries management
Video conference of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the European Union
The European Commission has unveiled today its proposal for an EU Biodiversity strategy calling for urgent action to protect nature in the EU and worldwide – but EU fishermen oppose the new strategy, seeing it as discriminatory, and undermining the viability of the sector by reducing its productivity and capacity to invest in improving social and environmental performance.
While the strategy is claimed to set up a full transformative plan towards an EU environmentally-friendly food production system that preserves and restores biodiversity, fishing industry body Europêche states that it further restricts the sustainable use of the oceans, subjecting fish products to additional taxation and making fisheries the target of discrediting campaigns.
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