At the EU ‘Agriculture and Fisheries’ Council on Monday 26 January, Spain, France and Italy, supported by Belgium and Greece in particular, called for a rapid review of the Western Mediterranean Multiannual Plan for the management of fish stocks.
The European Commissioner for Fisheries, Costas Kadis, said that he had instructed his departments to begin the procedures for revising this management plan immediately.
With regard to the Hague benchmark, he said that the outcome of this...