A total of 217 environmental and other civil society groups have sent a joint letter to all the 27 EU fisheries and environment ministers urging them to support the European Parliament’s aim of restoring fish stocks by 2012 and ending overfishing by 2015.
They told the ministers that 47 percent of the assessed stocks in the Atlantic, 80 percent in the Mediterranean and five out of seven fish stocks in the Baltic are overfished.
They also claim that by allowing overfishing of EU stocks, “governments are tacitly consenting to waste more than €3 billion of potential landing value every year, which could support more than 100,000 additional jobs."
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