“I don’t understand the Commission’s determination to torpedo coastal fisheries, even though it claims to want to safeguard them,” says Olivier Le Nézet, President of the Comité National de la Pêche Maritime et des Elevages Marins.

“The Commission’s obstinacy is obvious, with its desire to undermine the restocking of eels that our fishing sector has been putting in place for the benefit of many European countries. The measures in the Council’s compromise are extremely restrictive and illegitimate because the previous have not been scientifically evaluated”.