Luxemburg, 12/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 12 June, EU Fisheries Ministers reached qualified majority agreement on recovery measures for cod stocks on the Baltic Sea.
The recovery plan, which is to be applied immediately following its formal approval at the next Council, reduces “gradually but surely fishing mortality in the two zones of the Baltic (Eastern and Western). The target values for fishing mortality rates (the rate at which animals are removed from the stock by fishing)...