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answer has question	xGsZ8Bls
answer has answering person	Christopher John Pincher
answer text	<p>Under the Blue Belt programme, United Kingdom funding has been provided to support the Overseas Territories protect and manage their marine environments. The programme is currently on course to protect 4 million square kilometres of ocean around the British Overseas Territories. In delivering the Blue Belt initiative, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Marine Management Organisation(MMO) are working with the Government of Tristan da Cunha to ensure that the large scale Marine Protected Areas which have been designated, or are being developed, around the UKOTs are effectively managed, monitored and enforced. Traditional surveillance techniques, including sea and aerial patrols, are also being supplemented with trials of new techniques including satellite surveillance (radar and optical imagery); autonomous underwater vehicles; and unmanned aerial systems, to detect any illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Further funding was announced in August for FY 2020/21 to continue this important programme.</p>
answer given date	2020-02-11
answer has answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
written answer has answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	answering body has written answer	sOd3R6q1
answering body has answer	sOd3R6q1
xGsZ8Bls	question has answer	sOd3R6q1
Christopher John Pincher	answering person has answer	sOd3R6q1

<p>Under the Blue Belt programme, United Kingdom funding has been provided to support the Overseas Territories protect and manage their marine environments. The programme is currently on course to protect 4 million square kilometres of ocean around the British Overseas Territories. In delivering the Blue Belt initiative, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Marine Management Organisation(MMO) are working with the Government of Tristan da Cunha to ensure that the large scale Marine Protected Areas which have been designated, or are being developed, around the UKOTs are effectively managed, monitored and enforced. Traditional surveillance techniques, including sea and aerial patrols, are also being supplemented with trials of new techniques including satellite surveillance (radar and optical imagery); autonomous underwater vehicles; and unmanned aerial systems, to detect any illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Further funding was announced in August for FY 2020/21 to continue this important programme.</p>

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2020-02-11

answer has answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

written answer has answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

answering body has written answer

sOd3R6q1

answering body has answer

sOd3R6q1

xGsZ8Bls

question has answer

sOd3R6q1

Christopher John Pincher

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sOd3R6q1