Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the volume of catches was by (a) the UK and (b) EU member state vessels of (i) common sole and (ii) plaice in the North Sea in each year from 2016 to 2020.
The data requested is set out in the tables below
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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North Sea plaice |
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Total Allowable catch (a) | 131,714 | 129,917 | 112,643 | 125,435 | 146,852 |
UK Opening Quota (a) | 34,864 | 34,388 | 29,816 | 26,336 | 25,538 |
EU Opening Quota (excl. UK) (a) | 87,630 | 86,435 | 74,942 | 90,319 | 111,034 |
UK landings | 18,733 | 14,962 | 9,550 | 7,323 | 5,525 |
EU landings (excl. UK) | 59,610 | 49,562 | 39,957 | 32,044 | 25,856 |
Catches from within the UK EEZ | 13,203 | 12,663 | 11,513 | 9,391 | 6,038 |
U10m fleet pool landings | 96 | 73 | 36 | 28 | 19 |
U10m fleet pool quota allocation | 226 | 1,012 | 329 | 837 | 68 |
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North Sea sole |
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Total Allowable catch (a) | 13,262 | 16,123 | 15,694 | 12,555 | 17,545 |
UK Opening Quota (a) | 568 | 691 | 672 | 538 | 751 |
EU Opening Quota (excl. UK) (a) | 12,684 | 15,422 | 15,012 | 12,007 | 16,784 |
UK landings | 705 | 511 | 432 | 334 | 543 |
EU landings (excl. UK) | 11,750 | 11,207 | 10,263 | 8,005 | 6,384 |
Catches from within the UK EEZ | 3,554 | 3,517 | 3,460 | 2,987 | 3,408 |
U10m fleet pool landings | 164 | 159 | 113 | 103 | 81 |
U10m fleet pool quota allocation | 185 | 324 | 293 | 232 | 87 |
(a) before adjustments (e.g. Quota banked from previous year) |
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