After more than 20 hours of tough talks, EU fisheries ministers in Luxembourg managed to reach agreement in the morning of Tuesday 10 October on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea in 2018, including a smaller decrease in quotas than proposed by the European Commission for eastern cod. The ministers postponed talks about banning eel fishing in the Baltic until the Council meeting in December.
Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella said the agreement met the demands and ambitions he had...