"Cardiff is setting a new, much higher standard for sustainable fish policies," said Ruth Westcott, coordinator of Sustainable Fish Cities, a campaign run by an alliance of not-for-profit organisations that hopes to reverse destructive methods of fishing which threaten the future of some species.
But most of its leaders have always been hostile to full EU membership: they prize their sovereignty (Iceland became independent from Denmark only in 1944) and fear foreign control of their fish.EEA membership has been good for Iceland, which pays relatively little into EU funds, and runs its own farm and fish policies (it also escapes EU laws banning whaling).
Mandatory GPS tracking of commercial fishing vessels would help avoid such deaths and help identify their causes, said World Wildlife Fund Great Barrier Reef fishing policy manager, Jim Higgs.
Independent scientists conducting a peer review of the data are expected to make recommendations in January to the New England Fishery Management Council, which sets regional fishing policy.
With fishing policy, as with Italy's attempt to ban plastic bags, our government is terrified of appearing to allow the EU to undermine British 'interests'interests
The supermarket said that it will insist Oriental & Pacific makes a similar commitment to other branded suppliers who are working towards a more sustainable fishing policy.
Simon Hunter Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire John Redwood writes "when we have our own fishing policy we could move back to being net exporters" (Opinion, 1 December).
Part of Fearnley-Whittingstall's ever greater aura of evangelism no doubt derives from the success of his current campaign over European fishing policy.
But it is not, since Labour has also been keen throughout the campaign to strike a sceptical and nationalistic pose over Europe, particularly concerning the single currency, but also over fishing policy and other matters.
Members of the voting public, watching in appalled fascination, ended the day not a fraction wiser, in regard to fishing policy or to anything else, than they had begun it.
