Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 80775

Fish Farming: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Adrian Ramsay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department to ensure the humane slaughter of farmed fish.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

Since publication of the Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing a GB-wide joint government-industry working group on farmed trout has been examining the issues raised in the report. This co-design w...

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