This database calculates the Post Brexit
TOTAL ALLOWABLE CATCH (TAC) shares for
the United Kingdom and European Union and
compares this to the existing shares.
The UK, since the inception of internationally
agreed TACs, has never been an independent
coastal state under the terms of UNCLOS 3,
having surrendered control of fisheries to the
European Union upon joining in 1973.
Due to this, the UK has only ever received a
share of the international TACs under the EU
Quota system. This EU Quota system was
established in 1983, with the system of relative stability shares. These are a mechanism to allocate the resources subsumed to EU control.