Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the fishing opportunities for anchovy in the Bay of Biscay for the 2014/15 fishing season

Council Regulations on fishing opportunities adopted during the second half of each year no longer include a TAC for anchovy in the Bay of Biscay because of the different annual cycle followed by the biology of this stock and the scientific advice on it. An anchovy TAC needs to be set around July each year.

Under Council Regulation (EC) No 713/2013, the Council established the TAC for the fishery exploiting this stock applicable from 1 July 2013 until 30 June 2014. The TAC and its allocation to the Member States concerned must now be fixed for the following 12 months.

In 2009, the Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation establishing a long-term plan for the stock of anchovy in the Bay of Biscay and the fisheries exploiting that stock on which the proposed TAC is based. It is therefore appropriate to fix a TAC of 20,100 tonnes for the 2014/2015 fishing season corresponding to approximately an 18% increase from the previous TAC.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)454: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:454:FIN

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