ABSTRACT
Articles 493–511 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union are devoted to the parties’ post-Brexit fisheries relationship. This chapter surveys the detailed content of those articles and their related annexes, observing that they reflect an imbalance of the negotiating power between the parties, falling far short of the zonal attachment the United Kingdom set out to achieve as a basis for division of quota shares, and identifying a number of deficiencies and missed opportunities that suggest overcatch may become a perennial problem. The dispute settlement provisions are particularly awkward, distorted into a framework modelled on the World Trade Organization’s that they clearly do not fit.
