Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 40969
Trout: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025
Question
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour — Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure oversight of the welfare of trout on farms in England.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerCurrent legislation provides protection for farmed fish. The Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes it an offence to cause unnecessary suffering to any protected animal, including fish, or to fail to provide for the welfare needs of a protected animal, for which t...
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