EU-Norway agreement on fishing in the Skagerrak
At a Glance
07-12-2016
The EU-Norway agreement on the Skagerrak, allowing fishing vessels from Denmark, Norway and Sweden to fish in each other's waters, has been updated. The new agreement, aimed at bringing fisheries management in the Skagerrak into line with international principles of coastal state jurisdiction, was signed in January 2015 and has been applied provisionally pending its entry into force. Parliament's consent is necessary for the conclusion of this agreement.
At a Glance
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- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- coastal region
- conservation of fish stocks
- Denmark
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- Europe
- fisheries
- fishing agreement
- fishing controls
- fishing rights
- fishing vessel
- freedom of trade
- GEOGRAPHY
- LAW
- Norway
- political geography
- regions and regional policy
- rights and freedoms
- Sweden