Clara Eugenia Aguilera Garcia, MEP (S&D, Spain), has suggested that provisions which establish a common total allowable catch (TAC) and quota regime in the Mediterranean should be removed from the text of the regulation on the stock management plan (see EUROPE 12100). She considers these TACs could create problems for controlling low quota stocks, or “choke species”.
On Monday 24 September, the European Parliament committee on fisheries is due to discuss the draft report by Aguilera...