Fisheries: Quotas

Mr. Steen
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that additional fishing quota allocated to the UK is used in a sustainable way.

Jonathan Shaw
I am not aware of any additional fishing quota being allocated to the UK.

Mr. Steen
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many tonnes of plaice were caught in area 7E in each of the last three years; and what percentage of the UK's quota for plaice this represented in each year.

Jonathan Shaw
Information on catches of plaice by the UK fishing fleet in the Western English Channel (Area 7E) is shown in the following table.

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|    |Total UK end-year quota for plaice (Tonnes)|Plaice caught in Area 7E (Tonnes)|Percentage|
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|2005|16,722                                     |882                              |5         |
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|2006|15,648                                     |962                              |6         |
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|2007|14,317                                     |677                              |5         |
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