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Fisheries

Commons · Question 38358 · Tabled 14 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 19 Mar 2025

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Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of operating a carding system to (a) warn and (b) sanction states which (i) export seafood to the UK and (ii) do not cooperate wit

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 19 Mar 2025

The UK, after leaving the European Union, retained the powers originally set out in the EU’s Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Regulation (1005/2008) to ban imports from countries that do not cooperate with efforts to tackle IUU fishing. I...