"significant technical and legal shortcomings,"
"was too early to start."
"Fisheries products don't have a very long shelf life,"
"We keep getting inexplicable error messages, server errors,"
The European Commission launched the digital Catch certification system on January 10 to replace paper certificates and tackle illegal fishing. A group of EU countries led by Spain identified significant technical and legal shortcomings, including lack of integration with customs-control systems and with countries outside the EU that use its certification scheme. The system has produced server errors, missing fish species and postal codes, and PDF upload size limits, causing containers to be held at ports including Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam and at the UK border. A related regulation requiring captains to record species-specific weights in digital logbooks is proving difficult in multi-species fishing grounds.
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