Stockholm – Decrease quotas for salmon and sprat however elevated quotas for a number of herrings. It’s each constructive and unfavorable within the EU Fee’s proposal on how a lot fish may be caught within the Baltic Sea subsequent yr.
The proposals are based mostly, based on the Fee, on science that exhibits a dire state of affairs for a lot of fish shares.
The fishing quotas for salmon are reducing in addition to for sprat. However, the quota for herring within the central Baltic Sea is proposed to extend by 108 % and herring within the Gulf of Riga by 10 % to 83,881 and 41,635 tons respectively, as these belong to shares that, based on the EU Fee, have turn into bigger.
The catch quota for herring within the western Baltic Sea – solely bycatch is allowed – is proposed to be decreased by half, to 394 tons.
The difficulty of herring within the Bothnian Sea was one of many main dialogue factors for 2024 and right here the Fee has not decided however introduced that they are going to come again with a determine.
The proposal on quotas is predicated on the recommendation of the Worldwide Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The choice on fishing quotas might be made on the ministerial council assembly on October 21–22.
(August 26)
