§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which countries in membership of the north-east Atlantic fisheries commission have presently exceeded their quotas of fish in any species for which quotas have been agreed; and what was the proportion by which each quota was exceeded.
§ Mr. MacGregorFollowing the general extension of national fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles in the north-east Atlantic area the north-east Atlantic fisheries commission was reconstituted and a new convention entered into force in 1982. This does not provide for the setting of quotas in the waters under the jurisdiction of contracting parties. The European Economic Community, which is a contracting party to the convention, does, however, set quotas to apply to waters within the jurisdiction of EC member states. Catch statistics for 1983 are not yet available from the European Commission.