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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 06:55 UTC

Tag: fishing quotas

  • Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

    UK fishing industry questions new impractical EU rules on quotas and discards

    Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species

    New European Union rules on fishing quotas could have a “grave” impact on the UK's fishing industry, a House of Lords committee has said - just a day before the new policy is introduced. Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species. But under the new policy, fishers must bring the full haul back to shore. This change is to stop fish being wasted.

  • Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

    Spain celebrates as 'excellent' the latest EC fisheries TACs and quotas awarded

    Minister Arias Cañete underlined the “grand bargain achieved by Spain” with significant increases in fishing quotas in almost all resources of interest

    The head of the Ministry of Food and Environment (Magrama), Miguel Arias Cañete, highlighted the ”excellent results achieved by Spain in negotiating total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for 2014.”

  • Monday, December 17th 2012 - 21:00 UTC

    WWF blasts EU fishing quotas ahead of ministerial meeting

    “The message is simple: listen to science and let fish stocks recover”.

    European ministers have approved the catching of millions more tons of fish than scientists have advised over the past nine years, a report has shown. Fisheries ministers, who meet annually to decide quotas for stocks across Europe, have only strictly followed scientific advice on fisheries in 13% of their decisions, the report by World Wildlife Fund, found.