Fisheries: Quotas
(asked on 25th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many inspection and monitoring vessels regularly patrol British waters to ensure the enforcement of EU fishing quotas.
This question was answered on 8th February 2016
The Royal Navy provides up to three vessels for the purposes of fisheries control, including the enforcement of EU fishing quotas in waters off England, and off-shore waters of Wales and Northern Ireland. Fisheries control in Welsh and Northern Irish inshore waters and all Scottish waters is the responsibility of the relevant Devolved Administrations.