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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9297
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Agreement to reduce catches of blue whiting in 2007

Brussels, 30/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 27 October, the EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Isles concluded an agreement on a 15% reduction of their quota of blue whiting in the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Barents Sea for 2007. In line with the international multi-annual management plan set up in 2005, which aims to reconstitute the stock of the species in five years, the total allowable catch (TAC) for blue whiting was set at 1.7 million tonnes in 2007, down from 2 million...

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