David Amess – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to support UK fishermen (a) in general and (b) in the under 10 metre fleet.

George Eustice

UK-led Common Fisheries Policy reforms have given UK fishermen a more sustainable long-term future.

The inshore fleet will particularly benefit from an extra 1,000 tonnes of quota this year. This comes on top of the permanent transfer of under-used quota to the Under-10s, which was worth an extra 678 tonnes in 2015.

In addition, over £100m of European (EMFF) Funding is now available to support the UK catching, processing and aquaculture sectors.