Monday, October 3, 2011

Spain is the bad boy of European fishing

From the article:

Spain's fishy practices cast shadow on seas

"What that stance implies in Spain has been laid out more clearly than ever in a new report from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

According to their analysis, Spanish fishing has been subsidised to the tune of 5.8bn euros ($7.8bn, £5bn) since 2000.

Those subsidies have spanned the scrapping of old boats and the building of new ones, and just about everything in between.

And the number is so high that one in every three fish landed by Spanish boats is paid for in subsidy, ICIJ calculates."

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