On Wednesday 2 June, the EU and the UK reached an agreement in principle on catch limits for jointly managed fish stocks for 2021.
This agreement sets the final Total Allowable Catch (TAC) volumes for 2021. Indeed, the quotas had been set provisionally until March 2021, and then until July 2021, while a compromise on the TACs for the rest of the year was found (see EUROPE B12728A7).
The agreement was finalised in a telephone call on Wednesday between the Commissioner for Environment,...