The Fisheries Act 2020 provides the legal framework for the United Kingdom to operate as an independent coastal state under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (UNCLOS) after the UK left the Common Fisheries Policy (the CFP) at the end of the Transition Period. The Act creates common approaches to fisheries management between the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Devolved Administrations, known collectively as the Fisheries Administrations, and makes reforms to fisheries management across the UK. It also confers additional powers on the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to improve the regulation of fishing and the marine environment in the UK and beyond.
