Marine Animals: Fishing Catches
Lords · Question HL10340 · Tabled 9 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Baroness Boycott
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of marine mammals that have been caught by fishing vessels in UK waters in 2023 and 2024.
Answer
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock, 17 Sep 2025
The Bycatch Monitoring Programme is currently producing the 2024 report on marine mammal bycatch estimates and is expected to be published by the end of the year. According to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme there were twenty cases of c...