Brussels, 26/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - After two days of tense negotiations, the EU and Norway reached agreement on Saturday morning about the breakdown of fishing rights in 2004 for shared stocks. This required the settling of a long-standing dispute over two issues:
Cod in the Barents Sea: Compared with 2003, the EU won an increase of 3765 tonnes in its Total Allowable Catch (TAC) to 20120 tonnes, but in exchange Denmark and France had to agree to transfer part of their shrimp quota to...