New EU Fisheries Agency to be set up in Spain

EU ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries unanimously agreed on Monday (14 March) to set up a European Agency for Fishery Control in Vigo, Spain.

The setting up of the Agency is the last stage of reforms started in December 2002, aimed at monitoring the EU's fishing practices and to "promote a sustainable, efficient and rational fishing policy", according to Luxembourg's Minister of Agriculture Fernand Boden.

"Through the establishment of the Agency we will now have better means...