Brussels, 17/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - EU fisheries ministers easily reached a political agreement on Thursday 17 October on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for the Baltic Sea next year.
Fish stocks in the Baltic are at sustainable levels, Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki was pleased to announce, going as far as to talk of a “success story”.
For the Western herring stock, the Council agreed a 23% reduction (to 19,754 tonnes) in 2014, as initially proposed by the European...