Europe imposes minimum sizes for the catch of different fish species. For tongue that is 24 centimeters. Until now, our country was the only one to set the bar at 25 centimeters, to give smaller tongue the chance to develop further. Consultation with other European member states around the North Sea, to set the size general at 25 centimeters, did not yield anything.
The tongue quota in the North Sea rose by 169 percent for 2025. Although the Netherlands has nine times more of that quota, the Belgian fishermen can now look up 722 tons of tongue in the North Sea. So it is normal for them to ask for the same rules and conditions, it sounds.