Will the Minister state how many times each fishery patrol vessel has been out on patrol in each of the last 12 months separately?
The Fisheries Patrol Vessels (FPVs) did not undertake any patrols between 18 January and 22 March 2020 as new vessel safety management systems were developed. The vessels were also unable to complete patrols between 23 March and 20 July 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
We continue to improve the performance of our FPVs and despite these restrictions, between July 2020 and January 2021 our FPVs completed 67 at-sea patrols; this is an increase in the number of patrols of over 80% when compared to the previous year. The breakdown by vessel and month is below.
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July 20 0 3 3
August 3 2 4
September 11 3 9
October 3 1 2
November 8 5 1
December 1 0 0
January 21 8 0 0
Totals 34 14 19