Tristan da Cunha: Fisheries

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 7 December 2022.

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Photo of Andrew Rosindell Andrew Rosindell Conservative, Romford

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many commercial fishing licences were sold in Tristan da Cunha in (a) each of the years from 2016 to 2021 and (b) 2022 to date; what the monetary value was of such licences; what the flag state was of each of the licenced vessels; and what fish they were licenced to catch.

Photo of Anne-Marie Trevelyan Anne-Marie Trevelyan Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Following commercial fishing licences were issued by the Government of Tristan da Cunha;

2016 - one licence each for longline fishing of Bluenose Warehou and Tristan Lobster.

2017 to 2019 one licence each per year for longline fishing of Bluenose Warehou, one for trawling of Alfonsino and one for Tristan Lobster.

2020 to 2022 - One licence per year for Tristan Lobster fishing.

The lobster fishing and longline vessels are registered in Belize. The trawling vessel is registered in the Falkland Islands.

The value of these licenses is a commercial matter between the Tristan government and the licensee and as such the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is unable to release this information.

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