EU countries slammed Russia for overfishing in the Baltic Sea, a region that has seen its fish stocks decline dramatically in recent years, during a meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) on Monday (24 June).

In a discussion proposed by Lithuania and supported by Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden, the ad-hoc coalition stressed that Russia’s fishing of cod, herring, and sprat in the Baltic Sea conflicts with EU efforts to restore dwindling fish stocks.

“Such extremely unsustainable fishing activities in the Baltic Sea are undermining our joint efforts to rebuild the biological resources of this sea basin in line with…