Brussels, 31/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - Efforts made by fisheries and measures taken by the EU are beginning to bear fruit, although the objective of eliminating overfishing as set out in the reform has still to be reached. That is the lesson to be drawn from the consultation document on fishing quotas for 2014, adopted by the European Commission on Thursday 30 May.
Currently 39% of fish stocks in EU waters of the North-East Atlantic, for which an assessment has been carried out, have been...