Flag of Convenience Vessels: EIR release

Information requested

Why there are 11 flag of convenience vessels fishing our EEZ and landing directly to the EU market place missing off the economic link quota payback list.

Response

You provided the names of those eleven vessels which you set out did not comply with the landings condition of the Scottish economic link and have made no quota payback consequently. I have listed them in a table below.

Vessel name	PLN	2023	2024
Quo Vadis	BCK40	0	0
Tahume	UL666	0	0
Espemar Dos	AR325	0	0
Patricia Marta	OB113	0	0
Annegina	PD43	0	0
Neeltje	PD141	0	0
Mikkel Louise	PD344	0	0
Good Hope	LH359	0	0
Henk Senior	LH356	0	0
Genesis II	AR100	1	1
Genesis	A19	1	1
Mareixon	UL351	1	1
Inverdale	INS29	1	1
Cabo Ortegal	AR685	1	1
Brisca	UL37	1	1
Brosme	UL570	1	1
Sir Miles	AR94	1	1
Lord Miles	UL527	1	1
Eder Sands	UL257	1	1
Ayr Dawn	A523	n/a	n/a

The last two columns notate if the named vessel met the landings condition of the Scottish economic link; 1= complied and 0= did not comply.

The first 10 vessels, each notated with 0 in the last two columns, did not meet the landings condition in either year, however they all made quota paybacks in each instance. This information is publicly available and has been provided to you in previous correspondence. I wish to be quite clear that, in making a quota payback, these vessels complied with the Scottish economic link.

The next 10 vessels met the landings condition, i.e. each landed more than 55% of its total landings (of the 8 named species) into Scottish ports, and complied with the Scottish economic link.

The final vessel (Ayr Dawn) has not been Scottish administered since 2012. Therefore, it is not the Marine Directorate’s responsibility to monitor and enforce the vessel’s compliance with the economic link policy of its administration.

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