Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 October 2020
803. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage and value of the full annual catch of fish that has been registered as taken from Irish waters under the Common Fisheries Policy for each of the years 2000 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020 including the nationality of the boats landing the catch. [28762/20]
View answerUnder the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), official landing statistics are reported by Member States by ICES division, rather than by Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and most ICES divisions straddle more than one EEZ area. However, landings are also reported by ICES rectangles - these are smaller sub-divisions of the sea area used for statistical analysis. While reports by ICES rectangles are not official landing declarations, they can be used to provide a reasonable estimate of the EEZ from which these landings were caught.
Landings data by ICES rectangles are available for Irish vessels for the period 2003 onwards. For other Member States, this information is not routinely available. However, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has collated and published international landings data by ICES rectangles for the period 2011 to 2016. A more recent dataset for the period 2015 to 2018 has also been made available however, due to GDPR concerns, the data is aggregated across all Member States, so it is not possible to provide a country-specific breakdown.
Based on the above data, the attached tables compiled by the Marine Institute set out the estimated weight (in tonnes of live weight) and approximate value (in millions of Euro) of landings from the Irish EEZ by Ireland and other Member States for the period 2011 to 2018. The figures for 2019 and preliminary figures for 2020 (1 January to 4 October 2020) for Ireland are also included.
Table 1. Estimated landings weight (tonnes of live weight) from the Irish EEZ
|
Year |
BEL |
DEU |
DNK |
ESP |
FRA |
IRL |
LTU |
NLD |
UK |
Total |
|
2011 |
1.153t |
27.958t |
2.422t |
39.828t |
29.185t |
128.966t |
0.000t |
51.893t |
41.189t |
322.594t |
|
2012 |
1.137t |
22.877t |
10.239t |
25.103t |
33.132t |
193.285t |
0.000t |
87.685t |
63.505t |
436.964t |
|
2013 |
0.936t |
29.569t |
13.780t |
25.938t |
46.917t |
163.126t |
0.000t |
70.969t |
44.577t |
395.812t |
|
2014 |
0.481t |
28.814t |
22.895t |
24.319t |
42.368t |
155.632t |
9.592t |
34.269t |
84.549t |
402.917t |
|
2015 |
0.391t |
22.177t |
5.397t |
22.925t |
46.545t |
144.946t |
5.260t |
47.154t |
78.322t |
373.117t |
|
2016 |
0.324t |
16.037t |
11.908t |
25.483t |
41.179t |
124.264t |
2.186t |
30.293t |
51.587t |
303.261t |
|
2017 |
118.059t |
375.235t |
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2018 |
133.469t |
405.221t |
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|
2019 |
134.740t |
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|
2020* |
91.008t |
* 1 January – 4 October 2020
Table 2. Approximate landings value (millions of Euro) from the Irish EEZ
|
Year |
BEL |
DEU |
DNK |
ESP |
FRA |
IRL |
LTU |
NLD |
UK |
Total |
|
2011 |
€4M |
€19M |
€1M |
€83M |
€61M |
€145M |
€0M |
€32M |
€54M |
€399M |
|
2012 |
€4M |
€15M |
€3M |
€67M |
€70M |
€180M |
€0M |
€52M |
€72M |
€462M |
|
2013 |
€3M |
€19M |
€4M |
€66M |
€109M |
€160M |
€0M |
€41M |
€57M |
€458M |
|
2014 |
€1M |
€19M |
€13M |
€66M |
€99M |
€155M |
€5M |
€21M |
€88M |
€468M |
|
2015 |
€1M |
€14M |
€4M |
€64M |
€101M |
€162M |
€3M |
€28M |
€86M |
€464M |
|
2016 |
€1M |
€11M |
€7M |
€70M |
€102M |
€161M |
€1M |
€18M |
€65M |
€437M |
|
2017 |
€150M |
€357M |
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|
2018 |
€165M |
€374M |
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|
2019 |
€186M |
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|
2020* |
€107M |
* 1 January – 4 October 2020
