Brussels, 23/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - Thanks to the counsel of the European Commission, France and Spain have reached an albeit fragile compromise on the experimental anchovy fishery in the Bay of Biscay. The fishery resumed on Monday 23 April, after France recalled to port the vessels which had started catching anchovy on 15 April, the date initially set in the Council decisions of December 2006 on fishing possibilities for 2007 (see EUROPE 9409).
Under the conditions established by the...