Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83894

Fishing Catches

Tabled: 21 October 2025
Answered: 30 October 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to tackle (a) bycatch and (b) illegal discarding by vessels in the last year.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
We continue our effort to minimise and, where possible, eliminate the bycatch of sensitive species. Working in partnership with industry and eNGOs we have a range of activities in place including: continuation of the long-standing Bycatch Monitoring Progr...

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