Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of the number of people working as fishers in the UK in each year since 2010.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in their annual statistical publication publish a breakdown of the number of people working as fishers in the UK in each year ( UK sea fisheries annual statistics report 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
An extract from this report setting out the figures for 2010 to 2021 are supplied below.
Year | No. fishers |
2010 | 12,703 |
2011 | 12,405 |
2012 | 12,445 |
2013 | 12,235 |
2014 | 11,845 |
2015 | 12,107 |
2016 | 11,757 |
2017 | 11,692 |
2018 | 11,961 |
2019 | 12,043 |
2020 | 11,298 |
2021 | 10,724 |
The methodology for this 'Employment Data' is published within the report ( Sea Fish Statistics 2021 - Annex B).