España: The destructive practices of Spain’s fishing armada

With almost 90% of European fish stocks in poor condition, the EU is buying and catching fish from areas far beyond its borders. Instead of making real attempts to save these fish stocks and protect its marine ecosystems from collapse, the EU is focusing more and more of its catch capacity and destructive fishing in distant waters. Even if fishing were halted in 2010, 22% of the stocks are so depleted that they could not recover by 2015.