EU forced to drop North Sea fishing ban
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Far-reaching plans to close about one-fifth of the North Sea to trawlermen were abruptly dropped last night, as the European Commission caved in to pressure from a group of countries, including Britain.
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EU ministers allow fishermen to catch more cod in the North Sea, against environmentalists' recommendations.
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The European Union forced through reductions in catch quotas for the threatened bluefin tuna, which produces one of the finest and most expensive fish dishes in the world, but was criticized for not backing bigger cuts, officials said Monday.
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The European Commission calls on the UK government to phase out a tax break for offshore companies based in Gibraltar.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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Nations agree to ban international trade in the one of the world's most spectacular fish.
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The European Union on Wednesday banned blue fin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic for the rest of year as EU fishermen had caught the bloc's full 2007 quota of the endangered fish.
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The UK should support  a European Commission proposal to close fishing grounds to save cod stocks, a former fisheries minister says.
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08 December, 2004 - FISHERMENâS leaders and UK Government ministers alike today vowed to fight European Commission catching plans, which they said were out of date and too extreme.
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A scheme which bans fishing east of Lundy Island is having a very beneficial effect on marine wildlife, says English Nature.
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EU officials table a compromise to cut cod catches by 25% but allow boats to spend longer at sea.
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Britain strongly attacked "devastating" proposals by the European Union ( news - web sites ) executive to ban cod fishing in parts of the North Sea as EU fisheries ministers prepared for annual talks on quotas.
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Russia&#39;s Gazprom would have to pull out of a controversial project to lay a pipeline in the Baltic Sea if new rules on energy companies are passed by the European Union, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said here Friday.
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Key cod fishing grounds off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea are to stay open after Britain today persuaded the European Commission that closing them would &quot;devastate&quot; British fishermen.
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In an atmosphere of blockades by French fishermen and anger from Spain and Poland, the European Union&#39;s fisheries ministers have reached several compromises designed to restore what some say are dangerously low levels of several species.
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Alex Salmond is to deliver a petition calling on the UK to withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy.
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The EU decided Wednesday to cut national fish catches for 2005, rejecting proposals to shut fishing grounds in favor of more limits on the time trawlers can hunt for depleted species like cod, officials said.