BANNED NETS NOW BIGGER AND DEADLIER

European fishermen are Hoovering-up fish like never before:

Fishermen are continuing to use large scale drift nets in the Mediterranean despite an EU ban on the practice, while an environmental group claims to have proof that the fishermen are spending EU anti-drift net funds on new drift nets, or simply to fill their own pockets.

In a report sent to EU fishery ministers ahead of the fisheries council on Monday, maritime protection group Oceana accuses the EU of wasting tens of millions of euros on nothing.

The group has collected evidence that some of the fishermen take EU buy-out money to buy bigger and more damaging nets.

The fishermen claim the nets are the sole reason the industry doesn't flounder.