Luxembourg, 09/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - The EU Council adopted to regulations concerning:
1) The protection of juvenile marine organisms. This is the fifth amendment to the 1998 regulation aimed at preserving fishing resources through technical measures for the protection of juvenile marine organisms. The regulation provides for the Member States to fix the arrangements for using separating trawls or nets with a sorting grid used for shrimp catches. It introduces a ban on sand-eel fishing...