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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8853

22 December 2004
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
Agreement in sight over re-constituting endangered stocks and quotas for 2005

Brussels, 21/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - The fisheries ministers of the EU's Member States were moving towards agreement, in Brussels on Tuesday night, over reconstituting endangered cod stocks and Total Allowable Catches (TACs) and quotas for 2005. The European Commission agreed to scrap its plan to ban cod fishing from certain areas of the North Sea, in return for further cuts in the number of days ships are allowed to fish. The Commission also agreed to extend French and Spanish anchovy...

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