MEPs vote for sustainable fishing in the Baltic Sea

A multiannual plan for managing Baltic cod, sprat and herring stocks was approved by the European Parliament on 28 April 2015.

This was the first such plan under the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which took effect in 2014. Changes were based in long-run management, rather than year-on-year planning.

The Council of the European Union had approved its 'General Approach' on 20 April 2015. The Parliament and Council negotiators were now set to start talks, helped by the European Commission, with a view to reaching a first reading agreement on the plan.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 20 April 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/meeting-agriculture-and-fisheries-council-20-april-2015/

ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a multiannual plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-regulation-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-establishing-a-multiannual-plan-for-the-stocks-of-cod-herring-and-sprat-in-the-baltic-sea-and-the-fisheries-exploiting-those-st/

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