The European Commission adopted a proposal on Tuesday 10 January granting small fishing vessels a derogation to the rule that bans cod fishing in the Western Baltic Sea from 1 February to 31 March 2017.
In December 2016, the scientific, technical and economic committee for fisheries (STECF) published its assessment on the effect of closing the fishery for Western Baltic cod stock during the period from 1 February to 31 March 2017. It confirmed that the closure, agreed at the Fisheries...