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Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling

Commons · Question 88509 · Tabled 5 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 13 Nov 2025

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Asked by Charlotte Cane

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85516 on Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling, when she plans to publish (a) the summary of that consultation and (b) her Depar

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Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 13 Nov 2025

A consultation on the latest round of proposed fisheries byelaws, which proposes further restrictions on bottom trawling, closed on 29 September. The Marine Management Organisation is now carefully considering all responses received, and decisions will be...