As each year, the EU fisheries ministers, meeting in Brussels on 11 and 12 December, will seek to agree fishing quotas on the main fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea in 2018.
The European Commission has proposed maintaining or increasing current total allowable catches (TACs) for 53 healthy stocks and reducing them for 25 stocks which are in less good health (see EUROPE 11899). Catch increases are proposed for a number of sole stocks. But the European Commission is also calling...