Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 57925

Fishing Vessels: Monitoring

Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025

Question

Anna Gelderd

LabourSouth East Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the type approval process for inshore vessel monitoring systems in 2021.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Four devices were granted type-approval in 2021, based on evidence provided that devices met the I-VMS device specification of requirements, with the roll-out starting in 2022. Following feedback of quality assurance concerns, the Marine Management Organi...

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