European fisheries ministers decided in the early hours of Wednesday 19 December in Brussels, after two days of talks, to set up a quota exchange mechanism to overcome the difficulties arising from the full entry into force, as of 1 January 2019, on the obligation to land all catches, including by-catches.
Ministers provided, as part of the 2019 Regulation on Total Allowable Catches (TACs) and Quotas for 2019 in the Atlantic, Channel and North Sea, for a system of quota trading in a...