Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 51615

Marine Animals: Fishing Gear

Tabled: 12 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the risk of harm to marine mammals from (a) discarded and (b) lost (i) ropes, (ii) fishing lines, (iii) nets and (iv) other fishing equipm

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Government is committed to taking action to tackle Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) to reduce the risk to all marine life, including marine mammals. We are working domestically to tackle plastic pollution from fishing and aq...

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