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A new EU fisheries policy: Aligning market forces for conservation

7 July 2011 | By Mogens Schou, Advisor to the Danish Minister for Food

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is up for revision. On approaching the CFP’s 30th birthday, the EU imports an increasing 60 per cent of the fish consumed, excess quantities of our marine food potential is wasted, many fishing communities are economically underperforming and years of successive tightening of fisheries regulations…