Fishing Catches
(asked on 6th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is she taking to achieve an end to overfishing by 2020.
The UK Government was instrumental in ensuring that the EU Common Fisheries Policy contains a legal requirement requiring that by 2020, at the latest, fishing rates are set at levels that will deliver maximum sustainable yield (MSY).
At the European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council in December 2015, I maintained the pressure and successfully secured a 50% increase in the number of fish stocks, in which the UK has an interest, that will be fished at or below MSY levels in 2016.
Stocks fished at, or below, maximum sustainable yield in 2015:
1. North Sea haddock |
2. West of Scotland haddock |
3. Nephrops IV in Fladen ground |
4. North Sea plaice |
5. North Sea sprat |
6. North Sea autumn spawning herring |
7. Irish Sea herring |
8. Herring in Division VIa (North) |
9. Herring VIIa Celtic Sea and South of Ireland |
10. Herring in subareas I, II, V and sub areas Vi and VII |
11. Western Channel sole |
12. Horse Mackerel IIa. IVa. Vb. VIa. VIIa-c. e-k. VIII |
13. Whiting VII b-k |
14. Blue ling in Division Vb. and Subareas VI and VII |
15. NE Atlantic spurdog |
16. Roundnose grenadier in Vb, VI, VII |
Additional stocks which will be fished at, or below, maximum sustainable yield in 2016:
17.North Sea cod |
18.Nephrops in the Firth of Forth |
19.Nephrops in Moray Firth |
20.North Sea, West of Scotland and Rockall saithe |
21.Western Channel plaice |
22.Rockall haddock |
23. Megrim in Divisions IVa and VIa |
24. Irish Sea sole |