questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the economic impact of bycatch mitigation requirements on UK fishing businesses.
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