
Environment— Feature
The Quota Meeting
Fishing quotas are set annually in a room most fishers will never enter. Veyra sat outside one for eleven hours and spoke to the people on both sides of the door.
Environment Correspondent
Hanna Lindqvist reports on the North Atlantic and Baltic — fishing quotas, port infrastructure, offshore energy, and the towns whose entire employment picture depends on decisions made three jurisdictions away. Lindqvist has filed from every commercial harbor on the Swedish west coast and can identify most of them by the sound of the loading gear.
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Fishing quotas are set annually in a room most fishers will never enter. Veyra sat outside one for eleven hours and spoke to the people on both sides of the door.
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