” Today more than 80 percent of European fish stocks are overfished, and only 20 percent are considered sustainably fished. These are shocking figures, and would be so even if it had been the other way around.”

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment, speaking at European Maritime Days in Gijon, Spain on 19 May, 2010.

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