Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 82937

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, what assessment her Department has made of the risk that seafood imports from (a) China, (b) Russia and (c) countries yellow-carded by the EU may be linked to (i) illegal, unreported a

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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