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British Indian Ocean Territory: Fishing Vessels

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that no fishing boats operate within the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 14 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that no fishing boats operate within the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Blue Belt Ocean Shield Programme provides maritime domain awareness capabilities to tackle Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities within BIOT. This includes extensive, risk-based, remote satellite surveillance, tasking of satelli...

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