{"id":331984,"date":"2025-12-23T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331984\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:57:08","slug":"mackerel-overfishing-the-eu-denounces-an-agreement-between-the-united-kingdom-and-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331984\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackerel overfishing: the EU denounces an agreement between the United Kingdom and Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\"> by AI | 23.Dec 2025 | <a href=\"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/category\/europe-in-brief-ai\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europe in brief AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Union on Tuesday condemned a fishing agreement concluded between the United Kingdom, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland, likely to cause \u201cirreversible damage to the mackerel population\u201d in the North Atlantic, according to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000_33WM23X-1080x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\"  \/>Mackerel are displayed in a fish shop in Manosque, in the southeast of France, on September 22, 2023. (Photo: JOEL SAGET \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<p>Brussels \u2013 Announced on December 16, a fishing agreement between the British, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic authorities sets \u201ca total allowable catch (TAC) of more than 299,000 tonnes\u201d of mackerel in 2026, \u201cthat is 72% more than scientific recommendations,\u201d Brussels laments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision was taken without prior consultation with the European Union,\u201d the Commission points out in a statement sent to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes at a time when the stock is already below biological limits and risks collapsing, thereby worsening the problem of overfishing. Such excessive exploitation threatens to cause irreversible damage to the mackerel population,\u201d Brussels warns.<\/p>\n<p>In France, representatives of fishers earlier denounced the \u201cunilateral\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d decision of the United Kingdom, Norway, the Faroes and Iceland, \u201cStates that do not respect scientific advice,\u201d but which will nevertheless be able to export their products to the EU. (December 23, 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by AI | 23.Dec 2025 | Europe in brief AI The European Union on Tuesday condemned a fishing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-331984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}