On Thursday 22 December, the Council of the EU approved the agreement on fishing opportunities for 2023 between the EU and the United Kingdom and for certain deep-sea stocks for 2023 and 2024, guaranteeing fishing rights for EU fishermen in the Atlantic and North Sea (see EUROPE 13088/8).
The agreement determines fishing rights for around 100 shared fish stocks in EU and UK waters.
A reduction in Total Allowable Catches (TACs) in 2023 has been agreed with the UK for: common sole (-39% in the North Sea, -23% in the Irish Sea, -27% in the West of Ireland and -23% in the Western English Channel), haddock (-32% in Rockall, -22% in the West of Ireland, Bay of Biscay, Portuguese waters and the Azores Grounds and -14% in the Irish Sea), herring (-66% in the Faroe Grounds and Rockall, -39% in the Irish Sea and -40% in the Western English Channel and Bristol Channel) ,horse mackerel (-78% in the North Sea, West of Scotland, Irish sea, West of Ireland, the Porcupine Bank, in the Western English Channel, the Bristol Channel, the Celtic Sea and South West of Ireland), plaice (-79% in Bristol Channel and Celtic Sea, -32% in Eastern and Western English Channel and -26% in the Irish Sea).
The following TACs have been increased: cod (+63% in the Eastern English Channel), megrim (+17% in the Irish Sea), Norway lobster (+12% west of Scotland).
The TAC 2023 Regulation will be finalised by the EU Council’s legal/linguistic experts, after which it will be formally adopted by the EU Council and published in the Official Journal of the EU by the end of January 2023. The provisions will apply retroactively from 1 January 2023.
Link to quotas: https://aeur.eu/f/4rt (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)