Remember folks, the environment's only important when it lets you stick it to the United States:

The 25 fisheries ministers of the European Union have rejected a plan to close areas of the North Sea to cod fishing. And for the fifth year running they have ignored scientists' pleas to stop cod fishing in the North Sea entirely, instead allowing a catch for 2005 of 27,300 tonnes, the same as 2004.

I only expect to hear more about it when the hippies figure out how to pin it on Bush.