The worrying state of the cod stock in eastern Baltic waters will push the European Commission to take action, the Commission said on Tuesday 18 June in Luxembourg (see EUROPE B12276A18).
At Lithuania's request, EU fisheries Ministers discussed the measures to be taken to save the cod stock in the eastern Baltic, which is on the verge of exhaustion.
The advice of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) on the state of the cod stock in the Eastern Baltic calls for a...