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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the government will support the motion at the UN Fisheries Resolution to end bottom trawling on high seas seamounts.

The UK is participating in the UN negotiations on the Fisheries Resolution. We are supportive of the draft motion in principle, in line with our previous support for increased protection of seamount ecosystems in other international fora. However, those negotiations are live and ongoing.