PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fishing Catches (15 January 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of monitored marine fish stocks were overfished in UK waters in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
The UK Marine Strategy undertakes an assessment of the percentage of marine fish stocks with set quotas of UK interest that have been harvested sustainably. This assessment is undertaken every six years, with the latest assessment published in 2019. This includes data from 1990 to 2018.
This assessment found that the percentage of fish stocks fished at or below levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield, and therefore not considered overfished, has increased from 9% in 1990 to 46% in 2015 and 51% in 2018.
Answered by:
Victoria Prentis (Conservative)
26 January 2021
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