GEORGE Monbiot of The Guardian highlights an encounter with a Cardigan Bay dolphin and the disastrous consequences of over-fishing. ‘The European Union now recognises that its fisheries management has been a disaster,’ Monbiot writes. ‘Its green paper admits that 88% of European fish stocks are over-exploited and 30% have collapsed. Its quota system encourages the dumping of millions of tonnes of dead fish at sea, while its efforts to reduce the fishing fleet’s capacity haven’t kept pace with technology.’