Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 53329

Fisheries: Territorial Waters

Tabled: 19 May 2025

Answered: 2 June 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the potential financial impact of the extension of EU access to fish in British territorial waters to June 2038 on the fishing sector in each region.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

The new UK-EU fisheries agreement announced on 19 May will continue the current access arrangements in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, under which the UK grants access to around 1,600 EU registered vessels to fish in UK waters, of which 154 vessels h...

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