Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 38358

Fisheries

Tabled: 14 March 2025

Answered: 19 March 2025

Question

Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of operating a carding system to (a) warn and (b) sanction states which (i) export seafood to the UK and (ii) do not cooperate wit

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

The UK, after leaving the European Union, retained the powers originally set out in the EU’s Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Regulation (1005/2008) to ban imports from countries that do not cooperate with efforts to tackle IUU fishing. I...

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