Limits on salmon fishing
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August 19, 2012, Sunday
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FISHING limits for wild salmon in the Baltic Sea will be unchanged or cut slightly next year, under European proposals published on Friday, which environmentalists say ignore concerns that some sub-species could face extinction.
The European Commission says there should be a year-on-year cut of 11 percent in the allowable catch for "main basin" salmon, referring to most of the salmon in the Baltic, for 2013.
That followed the agreement by European Union ministers for a cut of 51 percent for 2012.
The Gulf of Finland salmon limit, covering a much smaller area, would be kept steady for a second consecutive year.
"The Commission has followed scientific advice for some species, but for salmon the level is double that recommended by scientists," said Saskia Richartz, Greenpeace?s EU oceans policy director.
"It?s doubly bad. It?s too high and it risks undermining efforts by some countries to address concerns raised by scientists that we might lose some of the populations altogether."
The total allowable catch for Gulf of Finland salmon is steady at 15,419 pieces, according to the Commission proposals for how 2013 limits should compare with those for this year.
For main basin salmon, the 11 percent cut to 108,762 pieces still leaves the allowable catch at about double the "not more than 54,000" recommended in a May report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
The council is an inter-governmental organization concerned with marine and fisheries science.
The European Commission says there should be a year-on-year cut of 11 percent in the allowable catch for "main basin" salmon, referring to most of the salmon in the Baltic, for 2013.
That followed the agreement by European Union ministers for a cut of 51 percent for 2012.
The Gulf of Finland salmon limit, covering a much smaller area, would be kept steady for a second consecutive year.
"The Commission has followed scientific advice for some species, but for salmon the level is double that recommended by scientists," said Saskia Richartz, Greenpeace?s EU oceans policy director.
"It?s doubly bad. It?s too high and it risks undermining efforts by some countries to address concerns raised by scientists that we might lose some of the populations altogether."
The total allowable catch for Gulf of Finland salmon is steady at 15,419 pieces, according to the Commission proposals for how 2013 limits should compare with those for this year.
For main basin salmon, the 11 percent cut to 108,762 pieces still leaves the allowable catch at about double the "not more than 54,000" recommended in a May report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
The council is an inter-governmental organization concerned with marine and fisheries science.
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