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EU fisheries boss told 'Sling your hook'!

Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

The EU boss for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Commissioner Joe Borg has been blasted by UKIP for his efforts to regulate recreational sea angling in the UK.

Despite a series of amendments to Article 47 of the Common Fisheries Policy recommended last month, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage told the EU Parliament on Tuesday that Britain's 1.5 million sea anglers were facing Brussels inteference in the sport they loved.

In a passionate speech, he said: "We've got a Common Fisheries Policy that has been an environmental disaster already, it is prejudiced against the British working fleet and it will now ruin sea angling in Britain if we give this man and people of his ilk. So Commissioner Borg, my advice is: Sling your hook!"

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