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Fishing Vessels: Monitoring

Commons · Question 91566 · Tabled 17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 24 Nov 2025

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Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 29 October 2025 to question 83898, how many (a) pelagic trawls over 24m and (b) demersal seines over 10m enrolled as volunteers to design and test Remote Elec

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Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 24 Nov 2025

Defra is currently working with one volunteer vessel from Fishery A, pelagic trawls over 24m. No volunteers have come forwards from Fishery B, demersal seines over 10m. The volunteer early adopter phase of each REM project will continue until the project ...