Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 91565

Fishing Vessels: Licensing

Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of fishing vessel licences including sanctions for fisheries and labour offences.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) publish UK wide lists of licensed fishing vessels and details of fishing vessel licences. The MMO does not publish sanctions for fisheries offences, but regularly publishes details of its successful prosecutions for marine and fisheries offences on the UK government website.