Brussels, 06/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Consultations between the EU and Norway in Bergen on 3 December brought an agreement on exchanging fisheries quotas for 2011 and on the catch limits for those stocks which are jointly managed in the North Sea.
An agreement was finalised on total allowable catch (TAC) limits for the following stocks in the North Sea for 2011: a 15% increase in the TAC for whiting; a 21% increase in the herring TAC; a 20% reduction in the cod TAC; a 5% drop in the TAC for...