THE EU’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council met on December 13, 2016 in Brussels to decide on the 2017 quotas for fishing in EU waters. New controls were adopted for skates and rays and Norway lobster in north-western waters, the Rockall component of the megrim stock in north-western waters and for anglerfish in the North Sea, Rockall and West of Scotland, Skagerrak and Kattegat.