A YORKSHIRE MEP has criticised a European deal on fishing as “meagre progress” which will take too long.

Ministers in Brussels have agreed that overfishing should be tackled, but Edward McMillan-Scott, who represents the region in the European Parliament, said the timescale would be “lengthy and drawn-out” and “playing for time we simply do not have”. Mr McMillan-Scott has been calling for an end to “discards”, which forces fishermen to dump dead fish back into the sea.