Brussels, 19/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - After a day and a night of negotiating, EU fisheries ministers reached unanimous political agreement, at 6.40 in the morning of Wednesday 19 December, on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas 2008 in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Channel. Cod catches will increase by 11% in the North Sea (in line with a bilateral agreement with Norway), but will be reduced everywhere else (-8% in Kattegat, -9% in the Celtic Sea and -18% elsewhere).
At a press...