Meeting by videoconference over the last two weeks, the delegations of the European Union, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, the Russian Federation and, for the first time, the United Kingdom, reached agreement on the management measures for blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring stocks in the North-East Atlantic for 2021.
“Both stocks have a total allowable catch (TAC) set at the recommended scientific advice”, the European Commission noted. The delegations of these...