Question follow-through · 52789
Fishing Catches: Territorial Waters
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of fish caught in UK territorial waters was caught by (a) UK vessels and (b) EU vessels in each of the last three years for which data is available; what his Department
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of fish caught in UK territorial waters was caught by (a) UK vessels and (b) EU vessels in each of the last three years for which data is available; what his Department
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
The UK does not collect data on catches of fish at a level of detail that allows us to determine the proportion of catch made by UK or EU vessels in UK territorial waters. However, under the TCA, 149, 152, and 152 EU vessels were licensed to fish in the U...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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