New rules to stop illegal fishing

If we can't enforce our own rules, this undermines the credibility of the whole common fisheries policy, no matter how sound it may be.

On 12 April 2011, the European Commission adopted a comprehensive system of control and enforcement and I expect compliance with EU fishing rules to improve from now on.

We can not allow even a small minority of fishermen to ignore the rules, and get away with it. Apart from being unfair this also undermines conservation efforts; it disrupts markets with unfair competition; it penalises law-abiding fishermen and chokes the circle of compliance; and, most importantly, it destroys fish stocks.
http://www.ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/damanaki/headlines/press-release...

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