Spain: Planas anticipates that there will be between 5 and 7 fish populations with quotas for more than a year

The acting Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, anticipated this Monday that the European Commission (EC) proposal on the total admissible catches and quotas in the Atlantic for 2024 will include “between 5 and 7” populations of fish whose fishing levels will be set for more than a year, as Spain requested. Planas said upon his arrival at a meeting of European Union Fisheries and Agriculture Ministers in Luxembourg that an “important issue” with a view to the distribution of next year's fishing quotas in the Atlantic is that “we are going to have between 5 and 7 probably” fish stocks whose catches will be set next December for a period of several years and not just for 2024, still waiting for the Commission to specify this in its proposal. That was “what we as the Spanish presidency (of the Council of the EU) had set as a fundamental objective,” said the minister. The objective, Planas said, is that the fleet can “take into account a business plan that ...