Fisheries: Staff

(asked on 17th October 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 20th October 2022

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).

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