Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
Commons · Question 6253 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4529 on Marine Protected Areas, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of bottom trawl fishing on his nature conser
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 14 Oct 2024
Fisheries regulators make detailed assessments of the impact of all fishing activities on the protected species and habitats in our Marine Protected Areas and develop byelaws to restrict fishing when it has been assessed as damaging. These site-by-site as...