Of the excess 40,000 tonnes of chicken Transdniestria imported in a recent eight-month period, says General Banfi, only 200 tonnes were caught on their way out again.
Around 60,000 tonnes are caught annually, half of it in the United Kingdom's waters.
C. maenas is fished on a small scale in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, with approximately 1200 tonnes being caught annually, mostly in France and the United Kingdom.
In the northwest Atlantic, C. maenas was the subject of fishery in the 1960s, and again since 1996, with up to 86 tonnes being caught annually.
In comparison, the 2.8m metric tonnes of skipjack caught in 2014, not currently overfished and most often used for canned tuna, had an end final value of $17.7bn.
The following year, authorities at Civitavecchia, a port north-west of Rome, seized a record haul of 40 tonnes of bluefin caught illegally in Sicily and packed for export in three trucks.
Babies, beware: Srinivasan Damodaran is proposing to use fish protein that would otherwise have been wasted to make an eco-friendly filler for disposable nappies (diapers in America).About a fifth of the 100m tonnes of fish caught annually around the world is unsuitable for sale.
About 1,000 tonnes of waste caught fire at Averies Recycling in Marshgate, near Swindon, just before 18 00 BST on Monday.
About 1,000 tonnes of waste caught fire at Averies Recycling in Marshgate just before 18 00 BST on Monday.
