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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9333
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Agreement on fish catches - up to 20% reduction in cod and “experimental” catches for Franco-Spanish anchovies

Brussels, 21/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - After 36 hours of a sometimes difficult debate on cod and anchovies, EU fisheries ministers from the Member States reached a unanimous political agreement on Thursday 21 December on Totally Allowable Catches (TACs) and quotas for 2007 in the Atlantic, North Sea and Channel. Cod catches in most of these waters have been reduced by between 15 and 20%, and the number of fishing days granted to boats in 2007 to fish in zones that are covered by the recovery...

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