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Newlyn weeders needed!

Breathing New Life into Newlyn’s Old Harbour The first stage of restoring Newlyn’s historic Old Harbour has been successfully completed, wi...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Remember this? The Fish Fight, discards and the EU one year ago




Millions of tons of fish are thrown overboard each year due to strict quotas imposed in an attempt to conserve stocks.

Now the European Commission wants to make a change to this. It has unveiled a proposal to ban the practice of discards.

Shot by Jessica Dowse. Reported by Rebecca Novell.