questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current bycatch mitigation measures.
answerText: Defra funds several initiatives that monitor bycatch of sensitive species and trial mitigation measures. Notably, its flagship programme Clean Catch works with fishers in UK fisheries to develop and trial ways to gather data on and mitigate bycatch, focus...
heading: Fishing Catches