EU allows fishermen to fish on the same days if they take measures

The European Council headquarters was yesterday the scene of long negotiations to try to defeat the European Commission's proposal to drastically reduce the number of days of trawling in the Mediterranean. In the end, the EU was able to announce after midnight that they had finally reached an agreement that will greatly soften the impact of the Commission's proposal on trawlers in exchange for fishermen taking measures to make fishing in the Mediterranean more sustainable to preserve endangered fish stocks. "If they apply the measures we propose, they will be able to fish the same days as this year. The message is that we continue fishing the same days of fishing with the same fishing opportunities, but in a more sustainable way because all the measures are related to the survival of fish stocks," explained the new EU Fisheries Commissioner, the Cypriot Costas Kadis, at a fishing conference. The sector in Catalonia was very worried after the Community Executive intended that the ...