a number of amendments were made to the european commission s proposal in response to the positions of various member states regarding certain crosscutting and substantive issues such as managing stocks for maximum sustainable yields a ban on discards and transferable fishery concessions in terms of the geographical distribution of companies the north and centre regions are still predominant with regard to corporate headquarters and job concentration in preserved fish accounted for the total production of tonnes turnover of eur million while production of dried and salted products cod totalled tonnes eur million in sales value