Greenpeace 'scraps' trawler on streets of Brussels

Video | December 13, 2010

Greenpeace activists place a sign reading "EU ministers: scrap overfishing" on a symbolically decommissioned giant model of a destructive fishing trawler in Brussels while EU ministers meet to agree fishing quotas. Greenpeace activists place and symbolically decommission a giant model of a destructive fishing trawler in Brussels while EU ministers meet to agree fishing quotas.

Ministers have consistently set fishing quotas above levels recommended by scientists. Greenpeace is calling on EU governments to 'scrap overfishing' and take destructive fishing ships off the water.

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