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<p>The Government has taken significant steps to ensure the UK can enforce its fishing
rights. These include, with respect to England via the Marine Management Organisation,
increasing the number of frontline warranted officers by 50% (35 people) for 2019/2020;
putting in place a framework to increase aerial surveillance by a maximum of two surveillance
aircraft as risk and intelligence demands; and chartering two additional commercial
vessels to enable an increase in routine sea-based inspections to supplement provision
from the Royal Navy Fisheries Protection Squadron.</p><p> </p><p>Fisheries control
and enforcement is a devolved matter. As such, it will continue to be for each Devolved
Administration to decide how best to control and enforce its waters, and what new
arrangements may be needed. We continue to work closely with the Devolved Administrations
in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to ensure a coordinated approach to fisheries
control and enforcement across UK waters.</p>
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