Fisheries resources: recovery of the sole stocks in the Western Channel and the Bay of Biscay

2003/0327(CNS)

The Council held a policy debate on the basis of a questionnaire drawn up by the Presidency on two proposals establishing measures for the recovery of Southern Hake and Norway lobster stocks in the Cantabrian Sea and Western Iberian peninsula, and for the recovery of sole stocks in the Western Channel and Bay of Biscay. The Council instructed Coreper to continue its work on this matter.