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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9294
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Member States agree Baltic fishing quotas - up to 10% reduction in cod quotas and 5% reduction for salmon

Luxemburg, 25/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - In the evening of Tuesday 24 October, EU Member States' fisheries ministers reached political agreement on fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea for 2007. For the countries affected (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland and the Baltic countries), it will mean a 10% reduction in the number of days spent at sea (138 days per year when fishing is banned in the East Baltic and 117 days in the West Baltic), reductions in cod catches (-10% in the East Baltic...

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