| Heading: |
Sandeels: Fisheries |
| Question ID: |
1801789 |
| UIN: |
51372 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4267 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sarah Champion
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| Asking Member handle: |
SarahChampionMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@SarahChampionMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to restrict bottom trawling of sandeel fish in the North Sea. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-21 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
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: |
Fishing for sandeel in UK waters of the North Sea and all Scottish waters has been prohibited since March 2024. Fisheries management is largely devolved. In England, the prohibition of fishing for sandeel in the North Sea is implemented through fishing ve... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |