Intrafish: EU increases Baltic cod quotas for 2019, slashes herring

                                 

EU increases Baltic cod quotas for 2019, slashes herring

 

Intrafish 16 October 2018: EU increases Baltic cod quotas for 2019, slashes herring

Rebecca Hubbard, director for the activist group Our Fish, accused member states and the European Commission of “rubber stamping the continued overfishing of iconic and chronically unhealthy fish stocks.”

“Despite strong support from celebrities, scientists and the public for ending overfishing in EU waters, Baltic member states have instead let short-term profits and political interests drive the setting of unsustainable fishing limits for stocks, such as western and eastern Baltic cod, and western herring,” said Hubbard.