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SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - Key Terms
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)MSY is the largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions. BycatchUnwanted fish and other marine creatures trapped by commercial fishing nets during fishing for a different speci...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries
ANNEX FISH-3 lists the fish species to which fishing vessels will have access:
Outside of 12 nautical miles this includes all fish species.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 5.1 The economic value of fishing in the UK & Scotland
5.1 The economic value of fishing in the UK & Scotland
The Scottish fishing fleet accounts for a significant proportion of the UK's fishing activity.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 7. Relationship between a Future UK-EU Fisheries Agreement and a Future UK-EU Free Trade Agreement
Proportion of the estimated weights and values of fish and shellfish landed from the UK EEZ by UK, EU, Faroese and Norwegian fishing boats in 2016.Source: Napier, I.R. (2018, April 30).
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 2. Relevant rules of international law relating to the conservation and management of shared fish stocks
The area beyond the EEZ is known as the high seas and it is subject to freedom of fishing, meaning that all states have a right for vessels flying their flag to fish on the high seas, subject to their obligations to ensure the conservation and management of fish stocks.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.1.3 Cooperation in the exchange of fishing opportunities
8.1.3 Cooperation in the exchange of fishing opportunities
Alongside the management of shared stocks, the agreement also addresses the question of access to fish stocks within the jurisdiction of the other party.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 4.2 The UK Negotiating priorities
This means that future fishing opportunities should be based on the principle of zonal attachment, which better reflects where the fish live, and is the basis for the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 10. What happens if there is no agreement?
As a result, there are challenges to ensuring that collective fishing efforts are sustainable in the absence of agreement with all other fishing states.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.4 EU- Greenland Fisheries Relations
This new agreement does not fundamentally alter the system for allocating fishing opportunities to EU vessels and the level of access is still determined through an additional protocol.
SPICe briefings
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21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.2 EU- Faroes Fisheries Relations
In determining these fishing possibilities, each Party shall take into account:
(i) the habitual catches of both Parties,
(ii) the need to minimise difficulties for both Parties in the case where fishing possibilities would be reduced,
(iii) all other relevant factors.
