“I don’t think people will be going out of business by the first of January,” Dutch Processors Federation President Guus Pastor told IntraFish. “In the end we will see people switching over to other species and those who don’t have a market for that [will do so].”

The European Union Fisheries Council meeting to decide the trade bloc’s annual quotas is scheduled to take place in Brussels from Dec. 19-21, with plaice and sole landings each facing cuts of up to 20 percent.

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