While the quota for Barents Sea Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) has been reduced for the second year running — this time by more than 10 percent — there will be no shortage of whitefish in the European market next year.
The joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission has confirmed the Barents Sea cod quota has been set at 894,000 metric tons (MT) for 2015, in accordance with advice given by the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES). This total allowable catch (TAC) is …
