Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling

(asked on 9th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is her proposed timetable for publishing a decision on restricting bottom-towed fishing in 41 English marine protected areas as consulted on in 2025.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 17th March 2026

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Ely and East Cambridgeshire on 13 November 2025, PQ 88509.

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