Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 34338

Fishing Catches: White Fish

Tabled: 27 February 2025
Answered: 11 March 2025

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has considered increasing the trawler by-catch limit for bass.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Negotiations between the UK and EU concerning the allocation of fishing opportunities for over 70 stocks, including bass, take place on an annual basis. This year on the 9 December annual bycatch limits for commercial trawls and seines were agreed. Fisher...

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