Morocco has agreed a new four-year fisheries agreement with European Commission that will allow 126 European ships to fish in the waters off Morocco and Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony annexed by the North African kingdom in 1975.
The agreement guarantees Morocco 40 million euros each year, compared with 36 million under a previous deal that was rejected by the European Parliament in 2011 because of questions over whether the money would benefit the population of Western Sahara.
