Despite a raft of emergency measures placed on EU fishing fleets to support wild-caught seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) stocks last year, the latest advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is that no seabass should be caught in U.K. waters next year, specifically the central and southern North Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel, Bristol Channel and Celtic Sea.
ICES’ advice confirms fears that the population – which is mainly shared with France and the Netherl…
