THE headline “Fisheries policy ‘an outrage'” is liable, unfortunately, to appear any week in the UK. The game is to guess whether it refers, for example, to last month’s Royal Society report accusing the European Union of gambling with stocks while allowing any fishing at all – or to a political candidate proclaiming that a vote for them will be a vote “for the fishing industry”.
So I am pleased to hear that there are now, at long last, serious discussions within the European Union not only about emergency quotas, but also on long-term recovery plans for commercial fish species such…
