After years of back and forth on the issue – culminating in an international ban and a black eye for Belize, the European Fisheries Commission has
decided to lift the fisheries ban on Belize, which will allow high seas vessels with the Belizean flag to export fisheries products to Europe.
As we told you, the EU Commission took the hardline just under a year ago, when they listed Belize as one of the countries not in compliance with the
regulations to stop high seas vessels flying the Belizean flag and conducting illegal fishing activities.
This weekend's reversal was well-received by the local NGO community, and also by the Government.
Of course, it comes a little too late since most of those high seas vessels which used the Belize Flag of Conveniences have left Immarbe – the ships
registry as a consequence of the ban.
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