Stockholm – Minister of Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren says that the Swedish authorities is pursuing a restrictive line for fishing within the Baltic Sea when EU’s fisheries ministers meet on Monday.
“It is among the most restrictive positions we have now had. The quotas shouldn’t enhance from this yr, and we have already got traditionally fairly low quotas,” he says after a gathering within the Parliament’s EU committee.
The EU Fee has proposed a doubling of herring fishing within the central Baltic Sea in comparison with final yr’s quotas.
Kullgren says that the federal government is pursuing this line to make sure that the shares of herring and sprat within the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, and the central Baltic Sea enhance. The opposition events, the Social Democrats, the Left Celebration, and the Inexperienced Celebration, however, are pushing for Sweden to cease industrial fishing. The Inexperienced Celebration even argues that the Fee’s proposal goes towards the EU’s personal fishing legal guidelines.
“If we pursue a line that’s perceived as aside from everybody else, then we won’t be notably attention-grabbing with our 2.3 p.c of the EU’s inhabitants,” says Kullgren.
A lot of the EU nations need to keep near the utmost stage proposed by the worldwide group ICES, based on Kullgren.
“My objective is that we ought to be on the desk, that we must always pull the quotas as little as doable,” he says.
(October 18)
