Fisheries: Territorial Waters
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of total UK fish stocks by (a) tonnage and (b) species will remain subject to EU access under the agreement to extend EU access to British territorial waters to June 2038; and what the UK's quotas will be in that period.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner
Annex 38 of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement sets out which quota and non-quota stocks are subject to access arrangements. The new access arrangements announced on 19 May will give the UK and EU access to the same fish stocks.
UK and EU shares of quota stocks are listed in Annex 35 and tables A, B and F of Annex 36 and these shares will remain fixed from 2026 onwards. The average tonnage of non-quota stocks the UK and EU can fish in each other’s waters will remain fixed at the current average tonnage defined in Annex 38.
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