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Brussels (dpa) - The environmental protection organization Greenpeace has criticized the agreement between the EU, Great Britain and Norway on catches for North Sea fish.
Sustainability looks different, said Greenpeace marine biologist Thilo Maack on Wednesday.
Greenpeace criticized the fact that the agreement played into the hands of the owners of German super trawlers - i.e. very large fishing vessels.
"The huge German-flagged deep-sea trawlers are returning from a single fishing trip in British waters with thousands of tons of fish," said Maack.
This type of fishing should be abolished.
"Fisheries Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) has secured her share of the herring quota of 350,000 tons and thus the benefice," said the marine biologist.
In view of the dramatically dwindling stocks in the North and Baltic Seas, new perspectives for family-run small-scale fisheries near the coast should be developed.
On Tuesday, the EU, the United Kingdom and Norway agreed on common catches for North Sea fish.
In five out of six jointly managed stocks, the catch quotas are within the limits of what is considered sustainable by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), as the EU Commission announced on Tuesday.
Many fish stocks in the North Sea are in a rather poor condition.
It is therefore primarily a matter of reconciling the interests of the fishing industry with environmental concerns.
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