On Tuesday 23 March, the EU’s fisheries ministers reached a political agreement on a draft regulation to extend provisional 2021 Total Allowable Catches (TACs) for stocks jointly managed by the EU and the UK until the end of July (see EUROPE B12683A10, B12682A4).
The provisional quotas from January to the end of March are equivalent to 25% of 2020 TAC volumes. The new catch volumes from January to the end of July represent “58.3% of the annual catch levels recommended by the...