| Croatia trawls for
EU help
Croatia wants to apply the European Union’s common
fisheries
policy but expects EU help to preserve its sea resources, a senior
Croatian official told Reuters.
Zagreb started EU membership talks in 2005 hoping to
join by
2010. It expects to open talks soon on fisheries—a difficult area
as Croatia will need time and money to adjust to EU standards.
“We have poorly equipped and outdated ships, no modern
storage facilities, and no wholesale fish markets or fishing
ports,” said Ivan Katavic, head of Zagreb’s EU negotiating
team on fisheries.
“What we have and bring as dowry into the EU is
a well-managed
and preserved fish stock with more than 150 commercially
important species, and we want to keep it alive,” he said.
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