Dr. Cecil Beamish:

There are various models. This is probably unique because of the scale of what we are dealing with. Our 100 shared stocks cover a vast swathe of what is available in European fisheries. There are no other arrangements of that scale. We have smaller-scale arrangements with Norway. We share information on catches etc. because each side needs to know that the other is respecting the agreement. As such, all of the catch statistics in those fisheries are shared. In an agreed arrangement, as opposed to a disorderly exit, the UK and the EU would have to be able to share information on catches, ensure fishing boats apply controls etc. There would have to be joint confidence in agreed management arrangements. However, nothing of that scale has been done up to now, so this would present quite a different landscape. In many ways, this arrangement will probably supplant the current December fisheries Council, because many of our stocks will be determined through bilateral negotiations with the UK.