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Very far from its classic haunts in the Caspian Sea, sturgeon for exclusive caviar productions is now bred in – the Abu Dhabi desert.

With the Atlantic bluefin tuna hovering on the brink of extinction, an Australian company reports promising progress in a program to produce aquaculture-bred Southern Bluefin Tuna.

An overwhelming majority of European consumers – in southern Europe more than 90 percent – want to see more sustainably caught products in the fish counters, a recent WWF poll shows.

The Fisheries ministers’ 14 April Council meeting will include a first discussion of a new regime for the Western Waters, a huge part of the area the Union controls.

With the rules now having been adopted for how the 2010 Control Regulation is to be enforced, getting away with fishing illegally will get much more difficult, the EU Commission says.

Sweden will continue to utilise an exemption from EU rules on the dioxin content in fat fish from the Baltic Sea, the responsible minister announced.

With only a few weeks remaining until a draft agreement is expected, the chair of the WTO negotiating group dealing with subsidies said he needed a period for “reflections”, while nations describing themselves as “friends of the fish” called for ambitious rules limiting fisheries subsidies.

The controversial EU-Morocco fisheries deal, prolonged by the Council last February against the will of Commissioner Maria Damanaki and key MEPs, is not only questionable on human rights grounds – it’s a bad deal financially as well, according to a media report.

EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki plans to present her CFP reform proposal to the Commission for its confirmation on 13 July, she has told MEPs.

Considering the tumultuous political situation in the country, EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki calls for a temporary suspension of the bluefin tuna fishery in Libyan waters, or by vessels under Libyan flag.