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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any UK trawlers are fishing in the waters of Western Sahara under the new protocol to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement; and what her policy is on utilising the UK allocation under that agreement.

There are currently no UK vessels fishing under the new protocol to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement. Decisions on any quota allocation and licensing would be made by UK authorities under the existing regulatory regime.