Your fish costs more than you think. A billion people worldwide depend on fish as their main source of protein, many living in the world’s poorest nations - including Africa.
Europe doesn’t rely on fish to survive – but the continent still has an insatiable appetite for it. As fish stocks in European waters are seriously depleted, the largest European fishing vessels increasingly exploit foreign waters. Today, one quarter of all fish caught by EU fleets are taken from non-EU waters. The devastating result: local fishermen's catch diminish, and their communities go hungry.
Fish is a food security issue, and Europe needs to take responsibility for its actions. The reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy must address the fundamental humanitarian issues that arise when developed nations take resources from developing ones. There must be coherence between international development and fisheries policy - an end to European vessels taking fish from the plates of the poor.
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