There are signs that the arguments put forward by the NFFO, Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation along with our allies in France and Ireland, have persuaded the Commission that it would be a mistake to include the Celtic Sea in the Cod Recovery Plan – with associated inclusion in the days at sea regime. At a recent meeting of the North West Waters Regional Advisory Council held in Paris, Commission officials indicated that the case put forward – that the ultra-mixed fisheries that characterise of Celtic sea should not be managed through a blunt instrument like effort control – had been persuasive and that the goal of including the Celtic sea in the Cod Recovery Plan from 1st January 2010 had been dropped.
