Source: The Independent
Author: Martin Hickman
France and Spain today backed down over a plan to carry on throwing dead fish overboard after an internet campaign organised by a television chef.
Prior to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s social networking campaign, the two countries had been hoping to persuade fellow fisheries ministers to sign a declaration opposing a ban on discards, when trawlers exceeding their allowable catch throw back fish into the sea dead.
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