Brussels, 09/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Having presented an action plan to preserve Mediterranean stocks in October 2002, the European Commission on Thursday adopted a proposed regulation to limit fishing effort in this zone. It aims principally to reinforce technical measures already in place, such as increasing the size of the minimum mesh size of tower nets (from 40mm currently to 50mm in 2005 then 60mm by the end of 2008), and bringing in provisions for the management of fishing effort,...