Question follow-through · 9746
Fishing Catches
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the levels of sea life unintended to be caught which get caught in fish lines.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the levels of sea life unintended to be caught which get caught in fish lines.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
Minister Hardy attended the launch of Wildlife and Countryside Link’s “Hidden in the Haul” report. The department is considering the report’s detail.To understand and address bycatch, Defra funds a range of initiatives including:The Bycatch Monitoring Pro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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