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Commission Tables 2027 Fishing Quotas With Cuts For Iberian Hake

Tómas Garðarsson
Policy Monitor, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Vigo: The European Commission proposed the 2027 fishing quotas for the Atlantic, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak on 5 November 2026, and the draft cuts Iberian hake while raising anglerfish. The text is a proposal for a Council regulation, numbered COM(2026) 608, and fisheries ministers are due to adopt it at a meeting in December. The Commission says the proposal has no implications for the EU budget.

The 2027 fishing quotas follow scientific advice from ICES and the multiannual plans for the North Sea and Western Waters. Hake in the southern Bay of Biscay and Iberian waters would fall 20 percent to 13,956 tonnes, a cut capped at that level. Anglerfish in the same waters would rise 22 percent to 6,563 tonnes, and Iberian horse mackerel would gain 6 percent to 59,950 tonnes.

Other southern stocks move down under the 2027 fishing quotas. Sole in the Bay of Biscay would drop 15 percent to 2,115 tonnes, and red seabream in Iberian waters would fall 35 percent to 28 tonnes for 2027 and 2028. Red seabream in the Strait of Gibraltar stays at zero. Spain, France and Portugal keep national management of sardine and seabass but must stay within ICES advice, and recreational seabass in the Bay of Biscay stays at two fish a day.

The northern waters carry the hardest choices. Kattegat plaice stays at 2,349 tonnes, unchanged from 2026, even though the stock sits below the sustainable range, because cod and sole are caught alongside it and ICES advises zero catches for both. Kattegat cod has an advised zero catch for 2027 and 2028, and the 2026 by-catch quota was 72 tonnes. Kattegat sole stands at 1,491 tonnes, below the limit reference point of 2,094 tonnes, after a 55 percent cut to 115 tonnes in 2026.

The proposal also tightens protection for sharks. Three thresher shark species and two hammerhead shark species would be banned, following their listing under the Convention on Migratory Species in March 2026. Eel rules continue, and stocks shared with Norway and the United Kingdom, along with those managed by regional fisheries bodies, remain open until talks conclude.

The Baltic Sea offers a contrast. Ministers had already agreed their Baltic opportunities by 3 November, with sprat up 44 percent and central Baltic herring up 71 percent, though still below the advised level. Irish Agriculture and Marine Minister Martin Heydon said that agreement builds on concerted efforts in recent years. Those increases show that the 2027 fishing quotas will differ sharply from one sea basin to another.

The December Council will decide how far ministers follow the Commission’s 2027 fishing quotas. Coastal communities in Galicia, Brittany and Portugal will watch the hake cut closely, while Scandinavian fleets will look at the Kattegat by-catch limits. The sources reviewed do not give the exact date of the December meeting.

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