In an opinion adopted on Thursday 30 November by Jesús Gamallo Aller (EPP, Spanish), the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) expressed its conviction that the system for managing marine ecosystems based on total allowable catches (TACs) must be made “more effective”.
The EU’s local and regional elected representatives point out that climate change is changing the behaviour and distribution of many species, “which is why the allocation of quotas should now be realigned with...