Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 22 October 2025.
Daniel Zeichner
Labour, Cambridge
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the quota application mechanism pilot for 2025 that allocated 2800 tonnes of Western Mackerel, how much has been (a) caught, (b) landed in UK ports and (c) landed in ports outside the UK.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Landings for Western Mackerel allocated through the Quota Application Mechanism so far this year amount to 0.8t of the 3619.2 t allocated.
All 0.8t was landed into Castletown Bearhaven in the Republic of Ireland.
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