Fishing: Run on Scrapping Program: Cutter Disappears From Coastal Towns

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Emden (dpa) – Many coastal fishermen in the North Sea want to abandon their cutters – the demand for the million-dollar scrapping programme launched by the Federal Government is correspondingly high. In a first round of funding for the decommissioning of the cutters, 48 applications were received by the end of March. "The demand exceeds the funds available in the first phase of funding", the responsible Federal Institute for Agriculture and Food…