At their meeting in Luxembourg on Monday 16 April, most EU fisheries ministers backed the recent proposal to set in place a new multiannual plan for fisheries in the EU’s western waters (see EUROPE 11989).
Over 48,000 fisheries and 18,000 fishing vessels from eight EU countries fish in the western waters, said Karmenu Vella, Fisheries Commissioner.
The Irish minister said “our first assessment of the text is positive”. France supported the text proposed, notably insisting on the need...