At the meeting of EU fisheries ministers in Brussels on Monday 19 March, European Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella unveiled the “both ambitious and realistic” multiannual management plan for demersal stocks in the Western Mediterranean (see EUROPE 11977). Some of the measures contained in the plan have come in for criticism from France and Italy.
The plan proposes setting targets for the most important commercial demersal fish stocks: hake; red mullet, deep-water rose shrimp, Norway...