The EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands reached an agreement for the monitoring, control and surveillance of shared pelagic fisheries stocks in the North East Atlantic, the European Commission announced on Monday 4 May.
Unfortunately, the Icelandic and Greenlandic delegations were unable to commit themselves to common control measures for pelagic stocks.
The agreement concerns mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting and herring.
It is the first dedicated agreement on fisheries control and is,...