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Stockholm – The herring quotas shall be elevated for subsequent 12 months in each the central Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, Bothnian Bay, and the Gulf of Riga. The sprat quota is certainly being decreased – however not as a lot because the EU Fee had proposed.
The whole lot is now determined by the EU international locations’ fisheries ministers.
“We’re very involved, there’s a very obvious threat of overfishing,” says Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Sweden’s stance was that herring fishing within the central Baltic Sea ought to lower in comparison with what the EU Fee had proposed. That won’t occur. As an alternative, the quotas are being doubled.
Kristersson, who represents the Average Occasion, regrets that Sweden has not gained assist among the many different EU international locations.
The opposition is deeply important. The Middle Occasion calls the choice a “loss of life sentence for the Baltic Sea” and the Inexperienced Occasion describes it as “the ocean is collapsing”.
“We’re additionally very involved, there’s a very obvious threat of overfishing. It’s a traditional downside when many international locations shield their very own pursuits with out contemplating the widespread good,” says Ulf Kristersson.
The Nature Conservation Affiliation can be important and calls the choice “a loss of life blow for herring and sprat”.
The criticism can be sharp from Swedish members within the EU Parliament.
(October 22)
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