When the EU’s fisheries ministers meet to negotiate next year’s catch quotas at the end of October, Sweden will be taking a cautious line, whilst Finland wants to push for higher catches. Two countries that could be working together to ensure long-term sustainability in the ocean are instead standing on opposite shores, pulling in different directions. How did it come to this?
Following a decline in prawn fishing over the past few years, catches are now on the rise again. New quotas have been negotiated between the EU (Sweden and Denmark) and Norway, meaning that catches in the Skagerrak, the Kattegat and the North Sea may increase by 15 per cent.
