The European Commission adopted its proposals on Thursday 6 October, reducing fishing opportunities for deep water fish species in the waters of the EU and the international waters of the North-East Atlantic for 2017 and 2018.
Deep-sea fisheries account for about 1% of all fish caught in the North-East Atlantic. Over the years, fishing activity and associated jobs have been declining as stocks become more and more scarce.
The proposal seeks to reverse this trend, the Commission says in a...