Baltic Sea: Council decides on how much can be fished in 2019
(WorldNews Africa)

On 15 October 2018 the Council agreed on next year`s total allowable catches (TACs) and member states` quotas for the ten commercially most important fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. The Council decided to increase fishing opportunities for plaice (+43%), sprat (+3%), Western cod (+70%), and herring in the Gulf of Riga (+7%). The Council also rolled-over the TACs for main basin salmon, and decided to decrease the future amounts to be fished for Central herring (-26%), Bothnian herring (-7%), Western herring (-48%), Eastern cod (-15%), and salmon in the Gulf of Finland (-3%). Thanks to this agreement, 7 out of 8 stocks for which complete scientific advice was available will be fished in line...