After tough discussions, EU fisheries ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, reached unanimous political agreement late in the evening of Monday 10 October on sizeable cuts of up to 56% in cod catches in the waters of the Baltic Sea in 2017.
The agreement reached on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas was nonetheless a disappointment for NGOs. They would have liked to have seen, for example, a temporary closure of the cod fishery in the western Baltic to allow the stock, which is in very...