Yesterday (11 October), EU farming and fisheries ministers decided on the use of Baltic fish stocks in 2022 – including access to a species in UK waters
According to the IPCC Report, temperatures in the Baltic Sea have risen dramatically since the 1980s. The research, put together by over 700 scientists, found that overfishing and climate-induced changes to the region have changed the structure of the deep basins there.
Every year, the EU negotiates total allowable catches (TACs) in regional seas for member states, to establish how much can be caught without permanently disrupting the marine ecosystem.
Yesterday, ministers decided on fishing access for the ten most commercially important stocks.
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