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Hooray, environmentalist’s supporters across Europe sent over 170,000 emails to MEPs in all 23 EU languages for the European Parliament action we organized for Fish Fight at Strasbourg. The 6th February became a great result for fish, fishermen, and for people power. There is a quite road to go, but we’ll explain what lies ahead at the end of this post!

Now it’s time for our pictures of the event we organized in cold Strasbourg were we attempted to persuade MEPs with our words, our facts, coffee and fish sandwiches!

And we grabbed our video camera and recorded the testimonials and key moments of this action.

You can watch it right here: SfZJXIu7aNg

All the MEPs who supported us also did a great action after winning the vote. Members of the Green party held banners showing fish saying ‘thank you‘ after MEPs voted to back fishing policy reform:

And we have lovely news were we appear from the BBC and The Guardian online editions! You can read them here and here.

The Parliament then voted for a more ambitious ban than that agreed by the Council of Ministers on the following 25th February, but that was expected. The Common Fisheries Policy is now moving into the final stages before it becomes law, and us and the rest of the Fish Fighters in Europe will be keeping up the pressure for an effective discard ban. More news to come at this blog!!!!