Spain assumes an 8% cut in southern hake fishing by 2022
Frozen Hake
Spain
Published Dec 15, 2021
Tridge summary
The European Union Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on Tuesday on the fishing opportunities for the Community fleet in 2022, which includes an 8% decrease in the catches of southern hake in the national fishing ground, as well as the cut of the 6 % in fishing days for the trawling fleet in the Mediterranean, a regulation that Spain has rejected.
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The European Union Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on Tuesday on the fishing opportunities for the Community fleet in 2022, which includes an 8% decrease in the catches of southern hake in the national fishing ground, as well as the cut of 6 % in fishing days for the trawling fleet in the Mediterranean, a regulation that Spain has rejected. The pact for the distribution of fishing quotas has been delayed until 9 a.m. this Tuesday, after almost 24 hours of debate in a Fisheries Council that formally began last Sunday. The agreement for the Atlantic Ocean has gone ahead unanimously, while the one related to the Mediterranean Sea by a simple majority in the face of the refusal of Spain, which has chosen to send a political message to what it considers a mechanical approach of the EU. At a press conference after the Fisheries Council, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, described the distribution in the Cantabrian and Atlantic fishing grounds as a "good ...
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