The Faroe Islands, midway between Britain and Iceland, got in on the act and trebled their quota to 85, 000 tonnes, pushing the total catch way above the ICES limit.

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"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish--striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog)--then sell them on the black market.

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The rules limit the percentage of a given species within the catch, meaning boats had to discard fish even though they had not met their quota.

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Mr Lansley told MPs that he had decided to re-instate the "Catch it, Bin it, Kill it" advertising campaign, which aims to limit the spread of flu.

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Quotas limit the amount of wet fish - such as cod, bass and ray - boats can catch to protect fish stocks.

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