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<br /><p>My provisional assessment of the effect of the changes to fishing quotas,
agreed at the December 2015 Fisheries and Agriculture Council, is that 24 of the fish
stocks in which the UK has an interest will be fished at or below maximum sustainable
yield levels in 2016. This is an increase of 8 (50%) compared with the outcome of
the 2014 negotiations.</p><br /><p>Stocks fished at, or below, maximum sustainable
yield in 2015:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1. North Sea haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2.
West of Scotland haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3. Nephrops IV in Fladen ground</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4.
North Sea plaice</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5. North Sea sprat</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6.
North Sea autumn spawning herring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7. Irish Sea herring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8.
Herring in Division VIa (North)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9. Herring VIIa Celtic Sea
and South of Ireland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10. Herring in subareas I, II, V and
sub areas Vi and VII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11. Western Channel sole</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12.
Horse Mackerel IIa. IVa. Vb. VIa. VIIa-c. e-k. VIII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13. Whiting
VII b-k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14. Blue ling in Division Vb. and Subareas VI and
VII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15. NE Atlantic spurdog</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16. Roundnose
grenadier in Vb, VI, VII</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Additional stocks which
will be fished at, or below, maximum sustainable yield in 2016:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>17.North
Sea cod</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18.Nephrops in the Firth of Forth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19.Nephrops
in Moray Firth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20.North Sea, West of Scotland and Rockall
saithe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21.Western Channel plaice</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22.Rockall
haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23. Megrim in Divisions IVa and Via</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24.
Irish Sea sole</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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