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Fishermen 'still illegally discarding dead fish' says report
By Kevin Keane
BBC Scotland's environment correspondent
16 July 2019
Fishermen are continuing to illegally discard dead fish back into the sea, according to a House of Lords inquiry.
The inquiry looked at the impact of the ban on fishing discards six months after new rules took effect.
The committee's report said the new regulations have had "little impact", but industry leaders said this was the wrong conclusion.
Fishing discards were prohibited after a campaign by the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
The EU regulations were designed to stop fishermen throwing unwanted fish back into the sea dead, instead obliging skippers to land them.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-48989124
