EU fishing licences consolidated using cross-border structures that obscure a company's market dominance

A 2018 EU Parliament-commissioned study identified a Dutch conglomerate as one of the EU's most powerful fishing entities. The firm had consolidated licences across Europe – including by acquiring old vessels in Portugal where quota rights are tied to the vessel – using cross-border corporate structures that obscured the true extent of its market position.

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