Press Release: Alternative to a moratorium on cod fisheries: Franz Fischler presents strengthened recovery plan for cod

The European Commission presented concrete ideas to the EU fisheries ministers on 27 November 2002 on how to tackle the cod crisis in a much stricter proposal than the one it proposed in 2001 as an alternative to a moratorium. This plan would require very significant reductions in fishing effort and total allowable catches and strengthened technical measures and control.