Total Allowable Catches

(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Stephanie Peacock Portrait
Stephanie Peacock
(Labour - Barnsley East)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is Government policy in total allowable catches negotiations with the EU on deep sea species that all deep-sea stocks should follow the precautionary approach advice provided by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.

Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

The UK Government supports the application of the precautionary approach in setting total allowable catches (TACs) for deep sea stocks. The deep-sea stocks that are subject to a total allowable catch and which will be negotiated with the EU for 2021 and 2022 are :

  • Black scabbardfish (BSF)
  • Alfonsinos (ALF)
  • Roundnose grenadier (RNG)
  • Roughhead grenadier (RHG)
  • Red seabream (SBR)
  • Orange Roughy (ORY)
  • Deep-water catsharks (API)
  • Frilled shark (HXC)
  • Gulper shark (CWO)
  • Portuguese dogfish (CYO)
  • Longnose velvet dogfish (CYP)
  • Black dogfish (CFB)
  • Birdbeak dogfish (DCA)
  • Kitefin shark (SCK)
  • Great lanternshark (ETR)
  • Velvet belly (ETX)
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