Question follow-through · 12670
Marine Animals: Fishing Catches
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure super trawlers report marine mammal by-catch to the Marine Management Organisation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure super trawlers report marine mammal by-catch to the Marine Management Organisation.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
This Government are committed to protecting our wildlife and putting nature on the road to recovery. Defra are working to improve monitoring and understanding of bycatch incidences as part of the Bycatch Mitigation Initiative. This includes continued annu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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