Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 20558

Fisheries: Monitoring

Tabled: 17 December 2024

Answered: 6 January 2025

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Question

Barry Gardiner

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17501 on Fisheries: Monitoring, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement for ve

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

Defra have already assessed which fisheries should have mandatory Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) and published the results in 2023. The assessment concluded that over 24 metre pelagic trawlers in English waters should be a priority. Implementation beg...

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