Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 82938

Seafood: Imports

Tabled: 17 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Barry Gardiner

LabourBrent West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to adopt a digitised catch certificate scheme that is interoperable with the EU’s new CATCH IT system for (a) receiving and (b) processing seafood catch ce

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The UK will be updating the information required on catch certificates this year. These changes will focus on ensuring the robustness of the data on traceability measures and will ensure that UK exporters can continue to re-export seafood originating from...

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