Sentences with phrase «catch quotas at»

ICCAT members routinely ignore the advice of their own scientific committee and set catch quotas at double recommended levels.

These meetings have in the past largely ignored scientific advice, setting catch quotas at levels that many scientists believe will ultimately cause tuna populations to crash.

Not exact matches

On sustainability, Mr Laming said those wanting to leave the CFP sought to avoid the policies quota system, increasing catches to replace jobs and wages lost through technology, but at further cost to the fragile underwater environment.

Led by the French, Spanish, and Italians, joined by Turks and others, Mediterranean fishermen violated official quotas at will and engaged in an array of illegal practices: misreporting catch size, hiring banned spotter planes, catching undersized fish, and plundering tuna from North African waters where EU inspectors are refused entry.