Greenpeace accuses20 European.

BRUSSELS

Greenpeace accuses 20 European
"monster boats"of overfishing.
The enviromental group Greenpeace
launched a campaign against 20
European "monster boats"it says use
a range of tricks to gangerously
overfish the world 's oceans.

 "Our oceans and fish stocks are in
deep crisis  with too many large and
destructive vessels chasing too few fish"
Greenpeace said in a summary of its
report entiled "MONSTER BOATS"
The scourge of the oceans.

Among the targeted boats are  five
Spanish -flagged vessels including
two that belong to the Spanish
fishing giant Albacora S.A.

Four other vessels in the cross-hairs
are  owned by the Nertherlands firm
Parevliet en Van der  Plas BV one of
which flies a Ducth  flag.two of which fly
a German flag and the last a Lithunanian flag

It suggested that the vessels violate
new EU rules specifying that "governments
should promote responsible ,low-impact
fishing.

The fishing lobby group Europeche
denounced the campaign as "typical"
Greenpeace hysteria according to a
statement from its President  Javier Garat.

"The assumption that small is beautiful
and big equals bad to wrong"Garat said.