Bulgaria: Allow the catch of turbot even before the issuance of the European Commission regulation on the quota

We will work for an earlier start of turbot fishing in the Black Sea and for stronger Bulgarian participation in international projects in the field of fisheries, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture Georgi Sabev at a working meeting in the General Directorate "Maritime and Fisheries" at European Commission (EC), cited by the Public Relations and Protocol Directorate at the Ministry of Agriculture. At the meeting, initiated by the Bulgarian side, current sectoral issues and the latest legislative proposals in the field of fisheries and aquaculture were discussed. Priority was given to the issue of the turbot fishing period, which is determined by an EC regulation. "Although the decision to catch turbot is made during the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in December each year, the catch regulation is published and comes into force at the end of January. This administrative procedure takes over a month from the possibility of fishing for the valuable species by the Bulgarian ...