Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of 2022 Data Collection Framework for Fisheries proposals, particularly on enforcement capacity and the number of observer staff allocated to the combined English and Welsh fleet.
The Data Collection Framework policies place no additional requirements on fisheries administrations for 2022. Further details of the UK’s data collection requirements for fisheries and aquaculture sectors for 2022 can be found in the UK workplan.
The UK does not deploy observers on vessels in UK waters for enforcement purposes. However, fisheries administrations do deploy observers on vessels to collect fisheries dependant data.