STRICTER quotas on catches of North Sea cod and other fish recommended this
month may not be enough to stop them dying out. The quotas are based on models
that may overestimate how fast populations recover, because they don’t take the
effect of environmental changes into account.
The European Commission has recommended that fishing quotas for North Sea cod
should be slashed to protect dwindling stocks. European Union ministers are
expected to accept these proposals this week, when they set quotas for European
waters.
But Michael Lesser and his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire in
Durham have found…
