So I ask what would my input be worth?
These reports will be only filed in the wastepaper baskets of the E.U .
Fisheries ministers of the 27 countries of the European Union had their traditional all-night pre-Christmas bargaining session on Tuesday night to assign catch quotas for the region’s beleaguered fisheries.
And in a continuation of another tradition, they ignored scientists’ advice and increased the catch of North Sea cod that will be allowed in 2008 by 11%.
North Sea cod has been under such stress that independent scientists have asked the ministers repeatedly for a ban on fishing it. The ministers have not increased catches in recent years, but have also not stopped them.
source: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13105