RE: Brexit army24 Dec 2020 21:53
According to the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, which was briefed on the matter by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, EU fishing quota in UK waters will be reduced by 15% in the first year and 2.5 percentage points each year after.
By June 2026, it's estimated that UK boats will have access to an extra £145m of fishing quota every year. In 2019, British vessels caught 502,000 tonnes of fish, worth around £850m, inside UK waters.
Boris Johnson is promising fishing communities "a big £100m programme to modernise their fleets and the fish processing industry" to help them manage this extra fish.
After the transition ends, the UK will have the right to withdraw EU boats' access to UK waters.
But Mrs von der Leyen said the EU will have "strong tools to incentivise" continued access for the EU fleet to UK waters. This might involve using tariffs (or taxes on UK goods entering the EU).
As the text of the deal is yet to be published, it's still unclear how the new quota will be allocated to British fishermen, exactly what access UK boats will have to EU waters and what measures have been agreed to preserve fish stocks and marine life.