Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 77354

Fisheries: Licensing

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 16 October 2025

Question

Caroline Voaden

Liberal DemocratSouth Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what process her Department uses to reallocate unused licences that allow fishing for bass.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Bass authorisations are administered by the Marine Management Organisation. They are separate to fishing vessel licences and allocated to the vessel with a track record of landing bass between 1 July 2015 to 30 September 2016. Unless approved by MMO to tr...

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