UK unprepared for new fisheries conservation rules

The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee publishes its report on the implementation and enforcement of the EU landing obligation

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http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/eu-energy-environment-subcommittee/news-parliament-2017/uk-unprepared-fisheries-conservation/http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/eu-energy-environment-subcommittee/news-parliament-2017/uk-unprepared-fisheries-conservation/
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Friday, February 8, 2019
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Summary
Key Points: 
  • The EU landing obligation aims to put an end to the practice of discarding fish.
  • The rules have been slowly phased in since 2015, and came into force in full on 1 January 2019.
  • But few boats in the UK currently have this installed and the UK Government will not mandate it unless other EU countries do the same, for fear of putting UK fishers at a disadvantage.
  • Instead, we are entering 2019 with the most likely scenario being that discarding will continue, leaving the environmental concerns that prompted the introduction of the new rules unaddressed."
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