date:Jul 28, 2012
Recent months have seen a shift of vessels that normally fish for prawns in the North Sea, where prawns have been scarce this year, moving to the West causing much greater fishing activity than expected.
While quota is projected to last the year and overall prawn fishing is at a similar level to 2011 and 2010, the displacement means the annual time at sea constraints for the West Coast the set limits for each geographic area under the EUs Cod Recovery Plan will be breached without action bein