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End overfishing
Why saving the fish will bring profits to fishermen
The Greens today denounced a decision by EU fisheries ministers attempting to delay an end to overfishing. In the ongoing fisheries reform, the Commission had proposed to set sustainable catch levels in line with the "Maximum Sustainable Yield" (MSY) by 2015, but early Wednesday morning the Council adopted a 'general approach' in which they propose to delay this date to 2020 and remove protection for the most vulnerable stocks.