Futures Forum: Brexit: and the opportunities and challenges of managing shared fish stocks

Saturday, 18 February 2017

Brexit: and the opportunities and challenges of managing shared fish stocks

Every month, the Devon Maritime Forum newsletter looks at Brexit from several angles - for example, from December:

Futures Forum: Brexit: and A Blueprint for Sustainable Seas

This month's looked at the impact of Brexit on the environment:

Futures Forum: Brexit: and the implications for Devon’s Wildlife

Including a report by Caroline Lucas MP:

Brexit: Exiting the EU, Not the Environment

The Devon Maritime Forum is naturally interesting in fishing - and this month it looked at the latest to emerge from Parliament:

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Report published on 17 December 2016. Awaiting Government Response. Report debated on 16 January 2017.

Report published

The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee has published its report highlighting some of the opportunities and challenges related to managing shared fish stocks following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

In withdrawing from the European Union the United Kingdom will withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which has hitherto been the source of fisheries management policy in the UK and the EU. But fish know nothing of political borders and the majority of commercial fish stocks are shared between the UK and the EU or other European coastal states to some degree. Species of these fish may spend different stages of their life cycles in different nations’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), and their spawning grounds may be in a different region from that in which they are caught when mature. These stocks are vulnerable to exploitation

All Brexit: fisheries publications