Website lays €1bn EU fishing subsidies bare

FISH is one of the policies the EU has operated communally for decades. But for the first time people can see exactly where the €1 billion in annual subsidies is going.

A website launched a few days ago shows how much countries, boats and ports got over the last funding period, from 1994 to 2006.

The information has always been available from the European Commission but now the data is on an easily understandable and searchable web site, www.fishsubsidy.org