The key objectives of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy are the following:

¤ Conservation: to protect fish resources by regulating the amount of fish taken from the sea, by allowing young fish to reproduce and by ensuring that measures are respected.

¤ Structures: to help the fishing and aquaculture industries adapt their equipment and organisations to the constraints imposed by scarce resources and the market;

¤ Markets: to maintain a common organisation of the market in fish products and to match supply and demand for the benefit of both fishermen and consumers;

¤ Relations with the outside world: to conclude fisheries agreements at an international level within regional and international fisheries organisations for common conservation measures in deep-sea fisheries.

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