Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that the UK negotiates future fisheries management as an independent coastal state.

As a coastal state outside the EU, the UK will be responsible, under international law, for controlling UK waters and the sustainable management of fisheries resources within the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The UK will negotiate as an independent coastal state.