date:Feb 08, 2013
Norwegian Seafood Council for the UK and France,acknowledged that stricter rules banning discards and settingupper limits on quotas would be difficult for the seafoodindustry throughout Europe. But Norway put similar rules intoplace in the 1980s to control its cod and haddock stocks, andtoday the Norwegian fishing industry is better for it. We tookhuge steps to turns things around, and now most Norwegianfishermen would say to their European counterparts that thesedrastic measures did pay off, h