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Bulgarian officials have assured Brussels that the country is putting in sufficient efforts in preventing the illegal fishing of turbot. File photo
The EU quota for turbot will not be reduced in 2013, it has been made clear, with the only two member states affected by the decision being Bulgaria and Romania.
Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov, who is in Brussels, has succeeded in convincing his colleagues to withdraw the proposal for reducing the quotas, the ministry announced.
The European Commission had proposed to cut the EU quota for turbot by 15%, to 74 tonnes. Instead, the quota will remain at its current 85 tonnes. The EU quota for turbot is divided evenly between Bulgaria and Romania.
Naydenov has assured that Bulgaria is putting in sufficient efforts in preventing the illegal fishing of turbot.
For sprat, the Commission has already announced it would keep the EU quota unchanged, at 11,475 tonnes. For sprat, Bulgaria and Romania's national quotas are set at 70 and 30 % of the total EU quota, respectively.
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