ClientEarth launches legal action against EU over unsustainable fishing quotas

Exclusive: Over-exploitation of fish stocks was supposed to end in 2020 under common fisheries policy

Legal action is to be brought against all 27 EU countries over the setting of unsustainable fishing quotas for 2022, two years after a deadline to end overfishing.

Under the EU's common fisheries policy, over-exploitation of fish stocks was supposed to end in 2020 but more than 40% of all commercial stocks in EU waters were unsustainably fished last year according to official monitoring data.