EU ministers debate drastic fishing cuts

European Union governments will today face calls for radical cuts in cod catches and the scrapping of hundreds of boats in response to dire warnings over the state of the continent’s fish reserves.

“The state of the stocks is catastrophic,” warned EU fisheries spokesman Gregor Kreuzhuber. “If you continue to fish like we have in the last 10 years, then in some years there won’t be fish in some waters.”