Cod Quotas Must Be Cut Says Brussels
Cod, Commercial Fishing, Illegal Fishing Thursday, November 26th, 2009BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s overexploited cod fisheries are still at risk and catches must be cut by a quarter next year in all zones except the North Sea where measures have yet to be decided, the European Union executive said on Friday.
Northern cod populations have fallen from 250,000 tonnes in the 1970s to around 50,000 tonnes today following decades of overfishing and quota-busting.
“In the case of cod in the North Sea, eastern channel and Skagerrak…things took a turn for the worse in 2008, when a greater proportion of the stock was caught than in any year since 1999,” the European Commission said in a statement.
No decision can be made on North Sea cod until the end of talks with Norway, which jointly manages the fishery.
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