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	<title>The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network &#187; EU Government News</title>
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		<title>CFP reform&#8211;working document</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has failed to a large extent. It has proved impossible to resolve the long-standing problems (overfishing, overcapacities, the poor economic situation of many undertakings in the fisheries sector, social problems caused by the decline of fisheries in many coastal regions). There exists a wide consensus among EU institutions regarding [...]
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		<title>Longliners must return tope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commercial fishermen using longlines, which are thought to take a huge amount of tope bycatch, must now return tope (and other sharks) to the sea unharmed in most European waters. From the official journal of the EU catches taken from EU and international waters of I, IIa, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, XII and XIV [...]
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		<title>EU Consultation on invasive alien species</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invasive alien species (IAS) are species whose introduction and/or spread, outside their natural past or present distribution, threatens biological diversity. They may cause serious damage not only to ecosystems but also to crops and livestock, disrupting the local ecology, impacting on human health and producing serious economic effects. While some EU instruments are dealing with [...]
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		<title>EC CFP Reform &#8216;at a glance&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/ec-cfp-reform-at-a-glance</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssacn.org/ec-cfp-reform-at-a-glance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EC has released a quick overview to the proposed reform of the CFP, naturally it’s long on ‘what’ and short on ‘how’ and of course the focus is on maximising commercial exploitation rather than maximising the regeneration of species. It’s key proposals are : Take action against over-fishing and in favour of the sustainable [...]
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		<title>Clyde nephrops discards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 80 tonnes of biomass are discarded every working day by nephrops&#160; trawlers in the Clyde Sea area (Scotland) compared with only 0.7 tonnes in the Central Adriatic.&#160; On a fleet basis that means that every year a minimum of 25,000 tonnes is discarded in the Clyde Sea area and 35,000 tonnes in the Central [...]
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		<title>Commercials to be paid to change their ways &#8211; again</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/commercials-to-be-paid-to-change-their-ways-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Commissioner Damanaki, the EU is to pay fishermen during the “very difficult period” while the practice of discarding over-quota fish is banned. She told a recent conference at Fishmongers’ Hall in London that a discard ban was “an absolute must” and that she would produce a plan for financing the transition to it [...]
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		<title>Damanaki on EU seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent communication Ms Damanaki said: &#8220;Our seas and oceans are in crises: ocean ecosystems are deteriorating, and this poses a direct threat to the coastal communities and sea-based economies that depend on them and that are the key pillars of European economy and quality of life. &#8220;By contrast to that, if protected and [...]
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		<title>Politicians ignore advice&#8211;again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again conservation efforts have been over-ridden by political interests. At last week’s annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), fishing powers agreed to cut international quotas for threatened skates by just half the amount advised by scientists. They also decided to require reporting of incidental shark catches by broad category rather than [...]
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		<title>EU to stop cod fishing off West Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Mike Parks, from the Scottish White Fish Producers Association, based in north-west Scotland, a &#8220;state of anarchy&#8221; still exists in parts of the fishing industry where everyone is out for what they can get from a diminishing stock. As a result, stocks have collapsed &#8211; 88% of European stocks are overexploited and 30% [...]
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		<title>CFP Progress report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission (EC) has published its report on progress achieved in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) over the last few years and its suggestions for fishing opportunities in EU waters in 2012. Commissioner Maria Damanaki emphasized that she intends to introduce a new, precautionary approach when proposing fishing possibilities: for fish stocks where scientific [...]
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