MPs call on Defra to end unsustainable fish discards

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee latest to call for overhaul of EU policy

An influential committee of MPs has today added its voice to growing calls for a change in European fisheries policy to prevent the "unsustainable" discarding of unwanted catch. Fish are commonly discarded...

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