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Hake is Spain’s most popular fish. The average citizen eats more than 4 kilos per year. (Photo: Mar Cabra)

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EU subsidies fuel Spain’s ravenous fleet

Hake is Spain’s most popular fish. The average citizen eats more than 4 kilos per year. (Photo: Mar Cabra)

Published in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Decades of overfishing have left Europe’s fish stocks in peril and its fishermen in poverty. It’s an impasse paid for by EU taxpayers. Yet a proposed revision of the EU’s fishing law, hailed as sweeping reform, is rapidly losing momentum.

A look at the industry’s biggest player - Spain - shows what officials are...

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