Original sentence: EU quotas can mean that fish are thrown overboard after being caught; yet as they are dead, this does not alleviate the problem as it was intended to
Edited sentence: " Because discarding is something that happens over the horizon it was removed from consciousness.A newspaper has characterised the group as follows: "their greater talent is for bending the rules and blind-siding officialdom," while the Court stated that the "wholesale falsification of official documentation" and “systematic, repeated and cynical abuse” by the fishing dynasty of the limits imposed to protect UK fish stocks was a concern.As early as 2009, it was reported that the EU quota system encouraged fish discards, in which non-quota species are thrown overboard after being caught; yet as they are dead, this is a bizarre method to manage a biological resource.By spring 2013, after a determined campaign, a political agreement was in place.Despite this record of abuse, subsidies of £3.6m to build new trawlers were given to Vidal Armadores and other Vidal companies by the EU between 2003 and 2006.Fines of more than 2mn euros have been assessed, three vessels have been confiscated, and at least seven convictions have been recorded for agents of this family.In summer 2012, the EU quota system with its discard policy was characterised in a national newspaper by one fisherman as stupid.The Vigo family from Galicia has had its trawlers arrested by the officers of various countries south of the equator at least 11 times in the space of 14 years.The absurdity of the fish quota system was highlighted in a television documentary and subsequent on-line publicity effort conceived and produced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who "WAS APPALLED AT HOW MUCH EDIBLE FISH WAS BEING CAUGHT IN THE NORTH SEA, AND THEN THROWN BACK OVERBOARD, DEAD, BECAUSE OF THE CRAZY EU LAWS.The defendants associated with two ex-UK owned trawlers admitted falsifying their logs, and falsifying the readings given for weighing fish at sea, to conceal the size of the catch they had taken from quota-protected UK waters.The family has received more than £12m in European subsidies despite being charged with illegal fishing in British waters.The inshore fleet in the UK accounts for 77% of all vessels yet is awarded (as of 2012) only 4% of the permitted annual UK catch