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German-based pressure group Environmental Action Germany (DUH), and Our Fish, a UK-based charity, have condemned the bloc s approach after Virginijus Sinkevicius, the EU commissioner for the environment, oceans and fisheries, confirmed it was ignoring scientific advice by setting fishing limits in excess of the recommended total in about one third of EU fish stocks. The ongoing dispute with respect to quotas in the north-east Atlantic means a target set in 2013 to end overfishing by 2020 will now be missed.