Fishing Catches
Commons · Question 83894 · Tabled 21 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to tackle (a) bycatch and (b) illegal discarding by vessels in the last year.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 30 Oct 2025
We continue our effort to minimise and, where possible, eliminate the bycatch of sensitive species. Working in partnership with industry and eNGOs we have a range of activities in place including: continuation of the long-standing Bycatch Monitoring Progr...