After two days and nights of negotiations, on the morning of Saturday 13 December, the European fisheries ministers reached political agreements on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for 2026 in the Atlantic, Channel and North Sea, and in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
Only Ireland has indicated that it is opposed to the compromise reached on the 2026 Atlantic quotas, on the grounds that it will not be able to benefit from the ‘Hague preferences’, a mechanism that gave it...