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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK's annual quota for skate and rays was in each ICES area in each year since 2000; and what the annual take up of the annual allocations by the UK was in each ICES area.

The UK’s uptake of Skates and Rays stocks is shown in the tables below. Information is based on figures held by the Marine Management Organisation, and all quota and catch figures are given in tonnes. Closing quota may be different from the UK’s opening quota allocation due to the effect of in year swaps or quota banked or borrowed during the previous year. Skates and Rays quota in the areas shown in Tables 2 and 3 were only introduced in 2009.