The EU Goes Fishin’

Sally McNamara / May 13, 2009

Fierce negotiations began in Brussels today over European fishing quotas – who can fish what and how much – an annual spectacle which takes place under the auspices the massively failed, and hugely expensive Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Over the past quarter of a century, the CFP has laid bare any illusion that the EU is capable of effectively managing European fisheries. The CFP has become a harbinger of national interests, which has resulted in environmental, ecological and economic disaster.

In many parts of Europe, fish is now a luxury food item, despite tons of dead fish being thrown back into Europe’s waters every year under CFP rules. (more…)