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Radio 4,30 mins

Plenty more fish in the sea?

Costing the Earth

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Miriam O'Reilly looks at attempts to manage the UK's fish stocks through the Common Fisheries Policy and their apparent failure. She visits Iceland, long hailed as a good example of sustainable fishing, to hear how politicians have just slashed cod quotas. She asks whether European politics works against the UK when it comes to rebuilding our stocks and whether scientists are taken seriously enough.

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