Question reference: S5W-01559
- Asked by: Emma Harper, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 20 July 2016
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Current status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 17 August 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how European funding supports the science, data and compliance costs for the sea fisheries sector.
Answer
The newly reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) provides a set of rules for managing European fishing fleets and for conserving fish stocks. The implementation of the CFP is directly supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund for the period 2014-20. EU fisheries management relies on data collected, managed and supplied by EU countries under the aligned Data Collection Framework Current Marine Scotland fisheries programme budgets supported by European funding are as follows:
Programme (2014-20) Scotland Allocation*
Fisheries Innovation Scotland awards £330,000
Data Collection Framework £16,718,186
Compliance/control costs £15,927,666
European funding also supports international applied science projects that has Scotland as a partner or project co-ordinator. In the current year, Marine Scotland is a partner in eight projects funded by the European Commission or Horizon 2020, with a total project value to Scotland of £0.600 million. Scottish Universities are involved in at least another three sea fisheries projects with a total value to Scotland of over £0.600 million.
*Subject to exchange rate fluctuation £/