Fish dumping 'will ruin industry' (BBC)

By Jeremy Cooke
BBC rural affairs correspondent

The UK fishing industry is warning it faces ruin because of EU quotas which result in thousands of tonnes of dead fish being dumped back into the sea.

It says fishing crews often continue catching large amounts of fish such as cod by accident after exceeding quotas - and have no option but to dump them.

Ministers are pushing for a quota increase to help solve the problem.

But environmentalists have called for a change in practices, such as avoiding areas with large numbers of white fish.

40%-60% dumped

European Union quotas strictly limit the amount of fish that vessels can bring back to port, but there is no restriction on the amount of fish they actually catch.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7102241.stm

we seem incapable from desisting from war and kill ourselves en masse.
maybe the bird flu and a nice pandemic will give us a few more decades.