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Faroes also blasts proposed mackerel sanctions

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By SeafoodSource staff
19 July, 2012 - The Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory, on Wednesday harshly criticized calls by Ireland and other EU countries for sanctions against it and Iceland for over-fishing of mackerel.

“This is a disturbing and very short-sighted approach from our closest European partners,” Kate Sanderson, who heads the Faroese Fisheries, Trade and Regional Policy Office at the Faroese prime minister’s office, told AFP.

Backed by France, Portugal and Spain, Ireland asked the European Commission Monday for information on potential trade measures against their north Atlantic neighbors, the latest chapter in what has been dubbed a ‘mackerel war.’

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