Brussels – The fishing quotas for cod within the Kattegat are being diminished even additional. This is among the outcomes after the EU member states lastly agreed on subsequent 12 months’s fishing in, amongst different locations, the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean.
The cod within the Kattegat can solely be caught as bycatch, and the utmost restrict is now set at 72 tons for each 2025 and 2026 – a lower of 17 p.c in comparison with this 12 months.
This 12 months’s negotiations continued till the night time of Wednesday and likewise resulted in, amongst different issues, diminished trawling in Spanish, French, and Italian waters within the Mediterranean, in addition to a big discount for horse mackerel off Portugal.
(December 11)
