Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details on any fish and shell fish quota swaps that the State has made with other EU States in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if he will provide the basis for these swaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28761/20]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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If a member state does not have sufficient quota for a certain species, a quota swap can be agreed with another member state.

Ireland may seek an exchange of quota with another EU member state to cover a shortfall in quota (or effort) for a fish stock in an area for the year. Conversely, Ireland may receive a request from another EU member state for a quota swap. Each swap proposal is considered on a case-by-case basis by my Department taking into account the views and recommendation of the Quota Management Advisory Committee (QMAC), taking into account ratios and market prices to ensure all agreed swaps are equitable.

Quotas are swapped on a temporary basis but continuously repeated yearly exchange is also possible. Ireland has long established relationships with a number of EU member states where certain swaps are carried out on a yearly basis, provided Ireland has sufficient quota available for the stock for the area.

I attach details of fish and shell fish quota swaps that Ireland has made with other EU States in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020. Please note that reports on swaps that were carried out over the last four years (2016 - 2019) are available on the Department's website.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage and value of the full annual catch of fish that has been registered as taken from Irish waters under the Common Fisheries Policy for each of the years 2000 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020 including the nationality of the boats landing the catch. [28762/20]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), official landing statistics are reported by Member States by ICES division, rather than by Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and most ICES divisions straddle more than one EEZ area. However, landings are also reported by ICES rectangles - these are smaller sub-divisions of the sea area used for statistical analysis. While reports by ICES rectangles are not official landing declarations, they can be used to provide a reasonable estimate of the EEZ from which these landings were caught.

Landings data by ICES rectangles are available for Irish vessels for the period 2003 onwards. For other Member States, this information is not routinely available. However, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has collated and published international landings data by ICES rectangles for the period 2011 to 2016. A more recent dataset for the period 2015 to 2018 has also been made available however, due to GDPR concerns, the data is aggregated across all Member States, so it is not possible to provide a country-specific breakdown.

Based on the above data, the attached tables compiled by the Marine Institute set out the estimated weight (in tonnes of live weight) and approximate value (in millions of Euro) of landings from the Irish EEZ by Ireland and other Member States for the period 2011 to 2018. The figures for 2019 and preliminary figures for 2020 (1 January to 4 October 2020) for Ireland are also included.

Table 1. Estimated landings weight (tonnes of live weight) from the Irish EEZ

Table 2. Approximate landings value (millions of Euro) from the Irish EEZ