Greenpeace ‘blocks’ fish talks

GREENPEACE says fisheries ministers, who began their annual three-day meeting in Brussels to decide the fish take for the coming year, should close most fisheries.

To make their point, they shut down the huge council building where ministers from the 27 member states normally meet to decide such issues, and put up a huge banner reading “Shut down until Fish Stocks Recover”.

About 200 activists, wearing bright yellow windcheaters, yesterday morning drove up to the big pink building in vans and lorries and began unloading concrete blocks, cement and huge yellow signs.