EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES QUOTA AMENDMENTS FOR UK FLEETS
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly approve a range of amended quotas affecting UK fishing fleets, covering haddock and herring in the north east Atlantic, as well as some smaller deep sea catches. Following a deal negotiated in January between the EU, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Russia on fishing Atlanto-Scandian (Norwegian spring-spawning) herring stock in the north-east Atlantic, European Commission officials have drawn up fresh quotas, to replace those agreed late last year. This new set of UK quotas include ...
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