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SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - a. Fisheries Policy
The strategy sets out the Scottish Government's position on a range of areas, and a twelve-point action plan, covering:
Promoting fishing as a career of choice;
Securing the resilience of the fishing industry;
Increasing the benefit of fishing to local areas;
Supporting delivery of a strong relationship between the fishing industry and local communities;
Addressing issues around shared marine space;
Strengthening co-management processes and supporting transparent and responsive management to a local level, wherever possible;
Delivering a robust licensing regime to manage domestic and foreign vessels fishing in Scottish waters;
Strengthening quota management processes;
Improving accountability and confidence in seafood products and fishing operations;
Delivering a robust Catching Policy;
Working with stakeholders to deliver an ecosystem-based approach to management; and
Taking action to understand and mitigate the impacts of climate change on our seas.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - iii. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
FAO Treaties:
2009 Agreement on Port State Measures to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (the UK became a party on 31 January 2021)
1994 Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas (the UK became a party on 1 January 2021)
FAO voluntary instruments and mechanisms
1995 Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
2001 International Plan of Action on Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing
2015 Voluntary Guidelines for Flag State Performance
2017 Voluntary Guidelines for Catch Documentation Schemes
Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - ii. UK Concordat on Management Arrangements for Fishing Opportunities and Fishing Vessel Licensing in the United Kingdom.
UK Concordat on Management Arrangements for Fishing Opportunities and Fishing Vessel Licensing in the United Kingdom.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - 3. An overview of fisheries governance in the United Kingdom
An overview of fisheries governance in the United Kingdom
In general, fisheries is a devolved matter, meaning that the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government have broad powers to regulate fishing in the Scottish Zone, as well as fishing by Scottish vessels beyond the Scottish Zone.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - b. Reserved matters
A number of other incidental, but important aspects of maritime regulation are also reserved matters (Scotland Act, Schedule 5). For example:
Registration of fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (this is different to the license required to catch fish);
Rules relating to the construction, surveying and certification of fishing vessels;
Rules relating to the prevention of collisions at sea;
Qualifications and training of seafarers, as well as safety on board vessels
Navigational rights and freedoms
As such, these issues are dealt with by the UK Department for Transport and the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - ii. Fisheries relations with Norway
According to the UK Government, ‘the UK sought to secure fishing opportunities for the UK industry, whilst at the same time addressing the historic imbalance between fishing opportunities taken in UK waters by other coastal states compared to those the UK took in theirs’, but Norway was not ‘willing to provide appropriate compensation for access to fish in UK waters, without which the relationships would have been left significantly weighted against the UK.’4UK Parliament. (2021, June 10).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - ii. Real economic link
Real economic link
Licences are attached to UK fishing vessels, but those vessels are not necessarily owned by UK nationals.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - ii. UK Government funding
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/24-million-for-cutting-edge-science-and-fisheries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/24-million-for-cutting-edge-science-and-fisheries</a> [accessed 14 September 2021]
The Science and Innovation pillar: aims to support the fishing and seafood industry to work jointly with scientists to research new types of more productive and sustainable fishing gear, gather new data to more sustainably manage the UK's fish stocks, and trial projects such as new biodegradable packaging for chilled fish and seafood to reduce single-use plastics.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - i. Introduction
Both the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) identify RFMOs as the principal means of developing agreed conservation and management measures for straddling and highly migratory fish stocks.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - ii. Regulating orders for shellfish stocks
If a regulating order has been granted, it is an offence for any person to fish in the regulated area in contravention of such restrictions.
