Article: Fishermen in France block ports on Channel

Article: Outlook 'gloomy' for new fish quotas ; South Devon fishermen's ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  December 18, 2007 ;     481 words ...South Devon fishermen's prospects of better catch quotas in local waters next year are as frosty as the weather ... pounds1million cutback on sole catches in the Western English Channel, as conservation rules continue to bite. It all rests ...

Article: Fishermen call for catch quotas to be increased
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  November 21, 2007 ;     607 words ... ... Borg were the "decision makers not the fisherman" and should do something: "We have got quite a range of fish in the English Channel, and the Bristol Channel, that are the subject of quotas." He said quota management was "not an exact science by any ...

Article: Fishing cuts proposal 'dire' Europe seeks to slash catch ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 18, 2001 ;     652 words ... ... the night in Brussels on next year's catch quotas, Labour's fisheries spokesman in ... of up to 60 per cent in next year's catch quotas - coupled with decommissioning of vessels ... has always proposed its annual fish catch quotas on the basis of current scientific evidence ...

Article: EU fisheries ministers reach deal on 2004 fish catch ...
AP Worldstream;  December 19, 2003 ;     405 words ... ... Friday morning, the ministers also reached a deal on the 2004 catch quotas for all species. A key goal of the talks was the need to ... with Germany and Sweden opposing to push through the annual catch quotas. Spain, Denmark, France and Britain want to protect their ...

Article: European Union seeks to ensure survival of both fish and ...
AP Worldstream;  December 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... economic hardships fishermen face, will decide next week on new catch quotas. Along Europe's Atlantic and Baltic coasts, the industry ... advice was quickly seized upon by supporters of an increase catch quotas. The stock, however, remains critically low. It looks ...

Article: EU fisheries ministers agree on catch quotas for ...
AP Online;  December 18, 1998 ;     378 words ... ... Associated Press Writer AP Online 12-18-1998 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ European Union fisheries ministers agreed on new catch quotas for 1999 on Friday, imposing widespread cuts to protect dwindling stocks. The final deal met most of the EU Executive Commission ...

Article: High fuel prices may hand Scots catch quotas to ...
The Scotsman;  May 12, 2008 ;     408 words ... ... now mounting concerns that by the end of the year Scottish boats will have failed to have fully taken their share of the catch quotas from Europe, resulting in the future reallocation of quotas by the EU to "subsidised" foreign fleets. That is the stark ...