Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 17351
Fishing Catches
Tabled: 2 December 2024
Answered: 5 December 2024
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a timebound legal duty to end overfishing in UK waters.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Fisheries Act 2020 contains a commitment to recover stocks to sustainable levels through the development of Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs). We are taking this approach having learned from the well-intentioned but ultimately unachievable single dead...
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