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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9530
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Council agreement on fishing quotas in Baltic Sea - Poland will respect ban of cod fishing

Brussels, 24/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Fishing ministers from EU member states reached a political agreement in the late afternoon of Tuesday 23 October on fishing quotas for 2008 in the Baltic Sea. (Estonia was the only country not to support the compromise because it was seeking a higher volume on herring catches in the Gulf of Riga.) These negotiations enabled the European Commission and Poland to settle their dispute on cod fishing in the Baltic, which had been poisoning their relations...

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