{"id":2796,"date":"2009-09-30T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2009\/09\/30\/mfa-slow-down-on-north-sea-cod-to-make-it-last\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T11:14:00","slug":"mfa-slow-down-on-north-sea-cod-to-make-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/mfa-slow-down-on-north-sea-cod-to-make-it-last\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA: Slow down on North Sea cod to make it last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would mean weekly landings coming down from the current 272 tonnes to around 155 tonnes, and staying at that level for nine weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Marine &amp; Fisheries Agency and the other fisheries administrations are putting immediate measures in place to try and ensure UK uptake of Area IV cod quota reaches no more than 90 per cent by 15 November.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The North Sea cod fishery will be closed to individual vessels which have reached their quota entitlement<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The North Sea fishery will then be closed to producer organisations as soon as they have reached 85 per cent of their 2009 cod allocation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The North Sea cod fishery will be re-opened to individual vessels after 15 November, should sufficient quota allocation remain<\/p>\n<p>The MFA warns unless the slowdown in North Sea cod landings is as achieved gear restrictions will be imposed for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the UK would face demands from Norway in current negotiations for further technical controls in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer organisations are being urged to almost halve the amount of cod that fishermen land from the North Sea (area 1V a,b,c ) in the coming weeks or face severe restrictions on the fishing gear they use for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}