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Mon 04 Apr 2009EU policy is an 'aberration', says fisheries group
THE EU’s Common Fisheries Policy is a “Napoleonic aberration” based on “command and control”, according to the founder of the West Cork Sustainable Fisheries Group.
The EU management system has supported “capital-intensive, high-technology” vessels which are “utterly out of proportion to the techniques employed by traditional fishing communities”, said Joe Aston, a west Cork-based fisherman. He has initiated the first branch in west Cork of a new sustainable fisheries association which will be akin in ethos to organic farming and the Slow Food movement, he said.
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