As stocks crash, 1 in 3 fish paid for with public money
€6 billion in subsidies fuel Spain’s ravenous fleet
OVERVIEW: Decades of overfishing leaves Europe’s fish stocks in peril and its fishermen in poverty: an impasse paid for by EU taxpayers.
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Graphic: Guess what's left of European fish?
Only three of 27 European fish species regularly consumed by humans are fished sustainably, according to an analysis by Fish for the Future, a European Union campaign group supported by five major EU political parties.
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