Question follow-through · 6525
Fishing Catches
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with environmental organisations on measures to reduce bycatch in UK waters.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with environmental organisations on measures to reduce bycatch in UK waters.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
Defra funds several initiatives that monitor bycatch of sensitive species and trial mitigation measures. Notably, its flagship programme Clean Catch works with fishers in UK fisheries to develop and trial ways to gather data on and mitigate bycatch, focus...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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