Otherwise, there was a risk that catches could exceed the level of the new TAC's before these were adopted. That would almost certainly imply, according to scientific advice, that no fishing should take place in 1997.
Dans le cas contraire, les captures auraient risqué de dépasser le niveau des nouveaux TAC avant que ceux-ci ne soient adoptés, ce qui, de l'avis des scientifiques, aurait presque certainement signifié l'interdiction totale de cette pêche en 1997.