Almost 90% of European fish stocks declining; 30% ‘beyond biological limits’

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Almost 90% of European fish stocks declining; 30% ‘beyond biological limits’; European fisheries commission admits failure

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels

A new Brussels position paper highlighted severe problems with fisheries and urged a complete rethink of a key European Union policy.

EU officials have been forced to admit that, despite the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), 88 per cent of European fish stocks are over-fished, compared to 25 per cent elsewhere in the world.

Almost a third - 30 per cent - of managed fisheries are "outside safe biological limits, they cannot reproduce at normal because the parenting population is too depleted", said the paper.

"Yet in many fisheries we are fishing two or three more times more than what fish stocks can sustain."

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