Question follow-through · 109568
Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will prohibit bottom-towed fishing gear in all 41 Marine Protected Areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will prohibit bottom-towed fishing gear in all 41 Marine Protected Areas.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
The consultation on the latest round of proposed fisheries byelaws, which proposes further restrictions on bottom trawling in 41 of England’s offshore Marine Protected Areas, closed on 29 September. The Marine Management Organisation is now carefully cons...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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