Prawn quota cut back by Norway, EU

Norway and the European Union have decided to reduce the prawn quotas in an area off the southern Norwegian coast by 10 percent midway through the fishing season due new scientific information on the state of the stocks.

Norway’s Fisheries Minister, Per Sandberg, said he understood the problems that a mid-season change in quotas creates for fishermen, but that this was the only reasonable solution after receiving the new advice.

This adjustment, which applies to prawn quotas in the...

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