date:Aug 01, 2012
Recent months have seen an unprecedented shift of vessels that normally fish for prawns in the North Sea, where prawns have been scarce this year, to the West. While there is sufficient quota and overall prawn fishing is at a similar level to 2011 and 2010, the displacement means the annual time at sea constraints will be breached without action being taken.
This latest management challenge starkly illustrates the need for an overhaul of the cod recovery plan something that the Government and