European Union and the United Kingdom - fisheries consultations: written record 2024
Written record of fisheries consultations between the United Kingdom and the European Union for 2024.
Access to waters
a) Albacore
a. The Parties agreed the access arrangements for albacore (ALB/AN05N) specified below. These arrangements will remain in place until 31 December 2024 and are without prejudice to arrangements in future years.
b. Each Party will grant access to vessels of the other Party in 2024 to target an initial total of 280 tonnes of albacore in its exclusive economic zone (As defined in Art. 495(1)(a) of the TCA. In accordance with Article 5(3), Part II (Access to waters) of Regulation 1380/2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, this excludes access to waters up to 100 nautical miles from the baselines of the Union outermost regions). This total tonnage may be increased in-year by agreement between the Parties.
c. Implementation of these access arrangements was discussed in 2023 resulting in the issuance of the relevant licences. The Parties agreed to rollover these arrangements for 2024 and that further discussions may be held between the Parties with regard to access arrangements in the following years.
d. For greater certainty, the Parties confirm that all non-albacore catches (quota or non-quota stocks) by vessels fishing under this access arrangement are covered by Article 2(1) of Annex 38 to the TCA.
b) Spurdog
a. Each Party will grant to vessels of the other Party full access to its waters in 2024 to fish the North Sea spurdog TAC at a level that is reasonably commensurate with the Parties’ respective shares of that TAC. Access to the zone in the waters of the Parties between six and twelve nautical miles from the baselines will only be to ICES division 4c and only to the extent that each Party's qualifying vessels had access to that zone on 31 December 2020 ("qualifying vessel" means a vessel of a Party, which fished in ICES divisions 4c or 7d-g in the zone mentioned in the previous sentence in at least four years between 2012 and 2016, or its direct replacement). For greater certainty, the Parties confirm that all other catches (quota or non-quota stocks) by vessels fishing under this access arrangement are covered by Article 2(1) of Annex 38 to the TCA.
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