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Legal Terms - fishery limits
The maritime zone for which a state asserts exclusive fishing rights, barring any agreements established in treaties with other states. British fisheries restrictions extend to 200 nautical miles from the baselines utilized for measuring territorial waters. Fishery boundaries may be constrained or regulated by bilateral or multilateral fishing treaties or agreements, such as the EU’s *Common Fisheries Policy. The UK Merchant Shipping Act 1988, which prohibited "quota hopping" by non-UK EU vessels, including those from Spain and the Netherlands, was deemed unconstitutional by the European Court of Justice in 1996. According to the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement finalized on 24 December 2020, the UK will transition to a new framework in which it has complete control over fisheries within its territorial seas.
The maritime zone for which a state asserts exclusive fishing rights, barring any agreements established in treaties with other states. British fisheries restrictions extend to 200 nautical miles from the baselines utilized for measuring territorial waters. Fishery boundaries may be constrained or regulated by bilateral or multilateral fishing treaties or agreements, such as the EU’s *Common Fisheries Policy. The UK Merchant Shipping Act 1988, which prohibited "quota hopping" by non-UK EU vessels, including those from Spain and the Netherlands, was deemed unconstitutional by the European Court of Justice in 1996. According to the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement finalized on 24 December 2020, the UK will transition to a new framework in which it has complete control over fisheries within its territorial seas.
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