Question follow-through · 20558

Fisheries: Monitoring

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17501 on Fisheries: Monitoring, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement for ve

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
6 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17501 on Fisheries: Monitoring, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement for ve

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Defra have already assessed which fisheries should have mandatory Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) and published the results in 2023. The assessment concluded that over 24 metre pelagic trawlers in English waters should be a priority. Implementation beg...

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