Germany cannot support fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea in 2022

10/12/2021 | 16:55:00 | ID: 31191 | Department: Agriculture | fishing Berlin (agrar-PR) - BMEL invites fisheries to a round table to discuss future prospects and aid The Council of EU Fisheries Ministers negotiated intensively in Luxembourg on the new catch quotas for the Baltic Sea. Germany criticizes the fact that the Commission applies different standards to the fishing of the two management areas Baltic Sea and Kattegat / Skagerrak. On the one hand, the local fishermen in the Baltic Sea would have to accept drastic cuts, while on the other hand, the stock would be fished to the north. That is not a holistic approach. Because the Commission did not respond to Germany's proposal to finally decide on the two management areas together in the December Council, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) was unable to approve the quota decisions as a whole. The State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Beate Kasch, explains in Luxembourg: “The ...