Ministers should not be the ones to set quotas, says a Swedish bestseller-writer-turned-member of the EP Fisheries Committee.
Interviewed by the IPS news service, Isabella Lövin added that she supported long-term management plans to replace “the kind of circus, where everyone tries to grab the biggest bit of the cake every December”.
Ms. Lövin, the author of “Tyst hav” (“Silent Sea”) which was a huge success both among critics and book-buyers in 2007, was recently elected to the European Parliament for the Swedish Greens and has a seat on the Fisheries Committee. Her book, which was just published in a Japanese translation, dealt with the disastrous state of global fisheries.