Strasbourg, 07/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission adopted a proposal on Wednesday 6 July amending total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for 2016, allowing limited landings of picked dogfish, a protected species.
Currently, fishing opportunities for picked dogfish (squalus acanthias) are set at 0 tonnes. However, they are still caught in significant quantities in a number of fisheries and present a real choke species on full implementation of the landing obligation. In...