Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 82936

Seafood: Imports

Tabled: 17 October 2025

Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Barry Gardiner

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting an EU-style carding system to (a) warn and (b) sanction states that are not sufficiently tackling illegal, unreported

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The UK has retained the Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Regulation following its departure from the EU and continues to apply its provisions. While the UK has not formally adopted the EU’s carding system, it does enforce import bans on s...

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