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Mr. Gill
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the 1999 haddock quota tonnage allocated to the United Kingdom and the total haddock quota tonnage available to the EU within EU and external waters. [81854]
Mr. Morley
The information requested is as follows:
| Stock | EU quota (tonnes) | UK quota |
| EU waters | ||
| Area IIa, North Sea | 69,680 | 157,045 |
| Skagerrak and Kattegat, Area IIIb, c, d | 3,675 | 0 |
| Area Vb, VI, XII, XIV | 19,000 | 15,110 |
| Area VII, VIII, IX, X CECAF 34.1.1 | 26,990 | 4,590 |
| External waters | ||
| Faroese zone | 500 | 2430 |
| Norwegian zone (north of 62°N) | 1,700 | 1,118 |
| Norwegian zone (south of 62°N) | 930 | 0 |
| Total | 122,475 | 78,293 |
| 1Of which no more than 50,000 tonnes may be fished in the Norwegian zone | ||
| 2 EU quota in Faroese waters is for cod and haddock combined and is not split for each species | ||