This is especially true of so-called demsersal resources (round fish: cod, haddock, coalfish and hake, and even whiting in certain cases).

Conversely, where the need for a reduction in the exploitation rate coincides with a deterioration in a stock since 1991, the necessary reductions in TACs are very marked as the case of coalfish off the West of Scotland illustrates.

This decision, taken on the initiative of Mr Yannis Paleokrassas, Commissioner responsible for fisheries policy, in agreement with President Delors, completes the strategy which the Commission began introducing when the first indications of a major disruption of the Community market were brought to its attention by the Member States. 1. The crisis on the white fish market The white fish market (in particular: cod, haddock, monkfish, hake, coalfish) in the Community has recently been seriously disrupted because of imports at abnormally low prices from certain non-member countries.