They decide states' catch quotas, and states adjust their limits to comply.
Proposals include reducing the number of permits and daily catch quotas.
It seems neither advisable nor reasonable that a State should increase its catch quotas if it does not have the means necessary for controlling them.
First of all let us consider catch quotas.
The Council has not wished to decide about restrictions on catch quotas, which have not been at all realistic.
He is trying to shift the decision about catch quotas from the Commission to the Council.
That implies that they will have to respect, for example, the catch quotas defined in Chilean laws.
Accepting catch quotas is one side of the coin.
The total catch quota for the Baltic is high, however.
By-catches are also large: sometimes they even exceed actual catch quotas.