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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9807

19 December 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
Discussions of fishing quotas to resume on Friday

Brussels, 18/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - In the afternoon of Thursday 18 December, EU Fisheries Ministers examined a first compromise text on total allowable Catches (TACs) and quotas for 2009. As is often the case, the first version was deemed not good enough by most countries, in particular France (which is against the 15% quota reduction in langoustines in the Bay of Biscay), Spain (which wants its current rights on silver hake, monkfish, langoustines and megrim to be carried over), the...

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