The European Union reaches an agreement on fishing catches by 2023

The Fisheries Ministers of the European Union (EU) reached an agreement on Tuesday on fishing catches in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean for the year 2023, diplomatic sources confirmed. The pact was reached after a two-day meeting between the Twenty-seven Fisheries headlines that began last Sunday and was marked by intense negotiations. In the absence of knowing the details of the agreement, fishing in the Mediterranean has been the main problem for Spain during the meeting. On Monday morning, the Czech presidency already presented a first compromise text that Spain rejected, considering that the advances proposed on catches in the Mediterranean were "frankly scarce" with respect to the initial approach presented by the European Commission (EC) in October, according to sources from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. A multi-annual plan for demersal fishing in the western Mediterranean was adopted in June 2019, applying from 2020 and introducing a fishing effort ...