Brussels, 20/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has announced deductions for 2013 fishing quotas for member states that declared that they had exceeded their quotas in 2012. Fourteen of them will be subject to deductions. The priority is to address the damage done to the stocks overfished and ensure sustainable use by member states of common fishery resources.
Quota deductions are operated on the same stocks that were overfished in the previous year, with further deductions...