Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 70851

Fisheries: Nature Conservation

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 23 September 2025

Question

Rosie Duffield

IndependentCanterbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure inshore fishing voices are equitably represented in Fisheries Management Plans and Marine Spatial Planning Decisions.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Inshore voices are considered across all fisheries management through support from regional fisheries groups, the Marine Management Organisation’s network of regional fisheries managers, meetings of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities and other...

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