The Associated Press
Hundreds of angry fishermen and their families are protesting an EU decision scrapping an accord that let them work in Moroccan waters, likening it to a death-knell for their economically depressed town in southern Spain.
The demonstrators waved red-and-white union banners and chanted Monday as they marched through Barbate, a fishing-dependent town of 20,000 in the southern Andalusia region. The fishermen are also staging a one-day strike.
EU lawmakers voted last month not to renew an accord that let European vessels fish in Moroccan waters. Among other complaints, the lawmakers called the euro36 million ($47 million) a year pricetag too expense and said the agreement led to over-exploitation of fishing stocks.
