EU AGREES CUTS TO BALTIC FISH QUOTAS FOR 2009
10.28.08 - Leído 28 veces. Enviar esta notaJeremy Smith
EU fisheries ministers thrashed out a deal on Monday to cut next year’s catches of overtrawled species like cod, herring and salmon in the Baltic Sea, hoping to preserve stocks under threat by overfishing
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg; October 28, 2008.- Cod catches in the western Baltic will be reduced by 15 percent from this year, in line with recommendations made by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. For Baltic plaice, the cut was set at 5 percent.
For herring in the western Baltic, where fish intermingle with already depleted numbers of herring in the North Sea, ministers agreed a reduction of 39 percent — much less than the 63 percent cut the Commission has proposed.
Cod in the eastern Baltic provided the one exception to the trend after scientific studies published earlier this year showed fish numbers had recovered enough for quotas to be raised. Next year’s catch will be set 15 percent higher.
That increase will be offset, however, by a concession made by ministers that vessels will have to tie up at ports for longer periods each month — by 10 percent more than now.
EU fish recovery plans normally combine management of catch volumes with restrictions in the number of days that vessels may spend at sea trawling for fish, spread over several years.
(Reuters)
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