| Heading: |
Fishing Gear: Regulation |
| Question ID: |
1812306 |
| UIN: |
59610 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5353 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Anna Gelderd
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Anna Gelderd
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) bans on offshore bottom-towed gear on displacement of fishing to inshore grounds and (b) that displacement on (i) |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
It is likely that fishing activity will be displaced as a result of the management of our Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), but there are many uncertainties. Decisions on the extent of restrictions on bottom trawling in offshore MPAs will be made following t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |