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Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Department is taking towards a ban on bottom trawling in inshore waters.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
25 Jun 2026
Answer
30 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Department is taking towards a ban on bottom trawling in inshore waters.

  2. 25 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Our comprehensive network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), now covering 40% of English waters, and over 50% of inshore waters, restrict bottom trawling in sensitive areas. Not all MPAs require restrictions on bottom trawling for example some mobile speci...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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