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quota-hopping

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quota-hopping
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Fishing) (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
quota-hopper  n


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Mr Blair won good deals for the UK on borders, jobs and defence and paved the way for an end to the fish quota-hopping row with half the Spanish catches to be landed in UK ports.
A classic example is the question of quota-hopping, which is vital to our fishermen.
The deal over quota-hopping,which allows foreign trawlers to scoop up Britain's EU quota of catches, could come within weeks, Mr Santer said.
 
 
 
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