Beyond Brexit—UK and Norway publish agreement on fisheries co-operation

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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published an agreement between the UK and Norway on fisheries co-operation. It states that both countries ‘fully share a commitment to cooperate with a view to achieving the objective of ensuring the long-term conservation and sustainable use of marine living resources’. As such, Norway will allocate a quota of cod to the UK calculated as 0.9432% of the reference Total Allowable Catch for the relevant year (amounting to 6,550 tonnes in 2022), which will be allocated outside any bilateral fisheries agreement between the two countries, while the UK will not authorise UK vessels in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea areas 1 and 2 to fish for species and quotas, other than those allocated to the UK by the coastal States in the area, without co-operating and consulting with those States.