14/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Joe Borg, European Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Commissioner, has expressed the hope that the European Union will adopt a “new cod recovery plan for the North Sea … in 2008”. During a meeting on Friday 14 September with fishermen from Germany, he congratulated the country for its prompt action with respect to closing its eastern cod fishery in the Baltic Sea on 4 July 2007. (lc)0