Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 6506

Fish Farming: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Mary Kelly Foy

LabourCity of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the standard of welfare of farmed fish in the UK.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Animal Welfare Committee’s updated opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing was published last year. A GB-wide farmed trout joint Government and industry working group is now examining the issues raised in the report to explore the...

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