Fishing Catches: North Sea
(asked on 8th June 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) volume of North Sea (i) common sole and (ii) plaice made available to vessels under 10m through the Pool for each year between 2016 and 2021 and (b) take up within the Pool of those stocks between 2016 and 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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