On Tuesday 14 December, after a night of difficult negotiations, EU fisheries ministers reached a political agreement on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for 2022 in the Atlantic, Channel, and North Sea, and on a 6% reduction in fishing effort for trawlers operating in the western Mediterranean.
With regard to the catch limits agreed for the Atlantic and North Sea, EU Fisheries Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius explained to the press that, for cod in the Kattegat, the EU Council...