The European Commission believes that the multi-annual management plan for cod, herring and sprat stocks in the Baltic Sea “has been beneficial”, in a report published by its services on Tuesday 15 September.
“The mixed development of the fish stocks and of the fisheries is not so much due to the implementation of the MAP than to causes that have been in place long before the MAP entered into effect, i.e. environmental factors and in particular unsustainable fishing, which over time...