A prize-winning journalist/author and novice politician behind a bestseller on the disastrous state of global fisheries has been elected to the European Parliament.
Isabella Lövin, a safe bet for the Fisheries Committee, was elected after the Swedish Greens doubled its earlier single-mandate representation in the EU Parliament.
Ms. Lövin, at the time a food columnist, started her travels into the intricacies of fishery policy after being stunned and shocked by hearing that more than 99 per cent of the EU eel stock had vanished over the latest 20 years. Her book “Tyst hav” (Silent sea), an allusion to Rachel Carson’s 1960s eye-opener, was published in 2007 and soon became a major commercial success, possibly an important contributor to making Swedish consumers Europe’s most ecologically-aware at the nation’s fish counters.