Photo: DPAA report published on Wednesday accuses Germany of systematically ignoring scientific advice on fishing quotas, thereby endangering fragile fish stocks in north European waters. German officials will be meeting with representatives from all EU Baltic states at BALTFISH in Copenhagen this week to discuss their position on Baltic fishing quotas for 2018. The policy aims to achieve these goals be introducing stringent quotas on catches. “Western Baltic Cod stocks have spent years teetering on the edge of collapse, yet Germany has consistently set fishing limits above scientific advice,” the report states. It also dismissed Germany’s argument that job protection lies behind its defiance of quotas.

Source: The Local August 30, 2017 10:52 UTC