By Stephen Levy
The European
Union, in its quest to address everything but its own economic struggles,
produced the summary of the review of its list of non-EU countries failing to
cooperate with it on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing on October
14th. The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, suggested
both adding and removing several countries from the list, which reviews 15% of
all commercial fishing. Belize, which had been added in March, was suggested
for removal from the list, allowing EU flagged ships to fish in Belize’s
fisheries, as well as permitting Belizean fish product imports. The EU also
lifted yellow cards (be more European, Europe) on Panama and several other
countries, while also identifying Sri Lanka as a non-cooperating third party,
meaning the EU will forbid imports from Sri Lanka unless the nation cooperates
and implements changes in its fishing programs.
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