After two days of intense negotiations, EU Fisheries Ministers reached, on Thursday morning, 17 December, unanimous political agreement on the Total Allowable Catches (TACs) and quotas for more than 200 stocks in the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea for 2021. Agreement was also reached on catch volumes for deep-sea species for 2021 and 2022.
Talks dragged on not over provisional quotas for stocks shared with the UK (25% of 2020 volumes for the first three months of 2021,...