It is being released now in response to a request by Defra to publish management information provided to them for operational purposes. The figures are provisional and will be subject to revisions as further quality assurance is complete and as updated information are received and analysed. Due to their provisional nature these data are high level aggregations without further breakdown.
It is planned that these provisional data will be followed by a more detailed final form statistical release as part of the UK Sea Fisheries Statistics annual publication in September 2017.
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