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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 67710, tabled on 14 March 2017

Question

Calum Kerr
Scottish National Party
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that the UK negotiates future fisheries management as an independent coastal state.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

20 March 2017

As a coastal state outside the EU, the UK will be responsible, under international law, for controlling UK waters and the sustainable management of fisheries resources within the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The UK will negotiate as an independent coastal state.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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