Audit of Europe’s fisheries uncovers web of deceit

EUROPE’S fisheries policy is in a shambles with huge overfishing and no proper controls on the €6 billion industry despite many species being close to extinction.

The European Union’s Court of Auditors uncovered a web of deceit and neglect that allows fishermen to catch way over their quota and countries to relay wrong information to the European Commission.

But despite suspecting the data is incorrect, the commission for the past 20 years has been forced to base its fishing quota allowances for each country on the data.