Fishing Vessels: EU Countries
(asked on 28th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times fisheries patrol vessels boarded and inspected EU registered fisheries vessels in each year between 2018 and 2022 inclusive.
Fisheries control and enforcement is a devolved matter, and each Devolved Administration is responsible for conducting inspections on vessels in their respective zones. Within England, the ten Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authorities are responsible for compliance and enforcement within inshore waters (0-6 nautical miles (nm)) and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is responsible for control and enforcement of third country vessels and all UK vessels fishing outside of 6nms. There is no fishing allowed by foreign vessels inside 6nms.
The number of inspections by MMO patrol vessels of EU vessels at sea in English waters by year are:
2018: 96
2019: 303
2020: 122
2021: 303
2022: 280
The number of inspections by MMO patrol vessels of UK vessels at sea in English waters by year are:
2018: 94
2019: 245
2020: 135
2021: 248
2022: 304