Fishing Catches: North Sea
(asked on 6th July 2021) - 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 the estimated value is of the increase in UK quota agreed with the EU for (a) North Sea sole and (b) North Sea plaice for 2021 compared to 2020.
Information relating to this question is already published:
- UK opening quotas (pre-landing obligation exemptions and pre-allocations adjustments) are set out in the Secretary of State’s determination of fishing opportunities which is available here [Fishing opportunities for British fishing boats in 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)].
- UK quota allocations have been set out by the Marine Management Organisation here [Fishing quota allocations for 2021 for England and the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)].
- Total TACs are set out in the written record of fisheries consultations between the UK and EU for 2021 here [Fisheries: consultations between the UK and the EU in 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)] and the agreed record of fisheries consultations between the EU, Norway and the United Kingdom for 2021 here [Fisheries: cod, haddock, saithe, whiting, plaice, herring and sprat management in the North Sea - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)].
The data requested is set out in the below table.
North Sea sole | |
2021 Total allowable catch (a) | 21,361 tonnes |
2021 UK opening quota (a) | 2,446 tonnes |
2021 UK under-10m fleet pool allocation (a) | 797 tonnes |
2021 EU opening quota (b) | 18,817 tonnes |
2021 estimated value of the increase in the UK’s opening quota compared to 2020 (based on 2019 UK average landings prices) | £13.0m |
North Sea plaice | |
2021 Total allowable catch (a) | 143,419 tonnes |
2021 UK opening quota (a) | 37,113 tonnes |
2021 UK under-10m fleet pool allocation (a) | 88 tonnes |
2021 EU opening quota (a) | 51,985 tonnes |
2021 estimated value of the increase in the UK’s opening quota compared to 2020 (based on 2019 UK average landings prices) | £18.8m |
(a) post-landing obligation exemption deductions, and pre-allocations adjustments (e.g. quota banked from previous year) | |
(b) taken from the UK-EU negotiation Written Record as the final EU TAC and Quota Regulation is not yet published, so this is pre-landing obligation exemption deductions and allocations adjustments (e.g. quota banked from previous year) | |