Monday, October 10, 2011

Spain's fishy practices cast shadow on seas


Some quotes stay with you forever.

One that's stayed with me came from Rafael Centenera, a general assistant director in Spanish fisheries ministry, when I interviewed him in Vigo, Europe's busiest fishing port, in 2007.

"For sure we are friends of fish," he said. "But still more, we are the friends of fishermen."

The reason these 16 words have stayed with me is that they encapsulate perfectly the approach to managing fisheries that has held sway for many years in most of Europe and indeed much further afield.

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