Fishing Vessels: Inspections
(asked on 1st July 2020) - 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 non-UK flagged commercial fishing vessels were inspected at sea by UK authorities in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
This question was answered on 10th July 2020
Fisheries control and enforcement is a devolved matter. The information provided relates to inspections carried out by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) only and does not include statistics from the devolved administrations.
Number of non-UK flagged commercial fishing vessels that were inspected at sea by the MMO.
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
239 | 162 | 151 | 96 | 303 |