Fisheries - All Types

Select Committee

Correspondence from the Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries relating to the Committee's Soil Health report, dated 15 May 2024

Correspondence May. 21 2024

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Correspondence from the Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries relating to the Committee's Soil Health

Written Question

Fisheries: Finance

Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he has allocated to supporting the the fisheries sector; and what steps he is taking to support sustainability in that sector.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government is committed to supporting the UK fishing sector through our funding schemes. Through the annual investment of £32.7 million across the UK for domestic grants schemes, control and enforcement and data collection activities, in addition to the UK-wide £100 million UK Seafood Fund (UKSF), the Government is investing in projects that will support the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the UK fisheries and seafood sector.

The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme funds projects that boost the sale of seafood, increase business resilience and support more environmentally sustainably practices. The UKSF has four pillars providing funding to: improve infrastructure; deliver science and innovation projects; support the current and future skills and training needs of the sector; and boost seafood exports.

The first Fisheries Management Plans published in December 2023 are part of a package of reforms to make our fisheries more sustainable. Other reforms related to the management of discards and introduction of remote electronic monitoring policies were set out on 13 May 2024.

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Environment Agency

May. 20 2024

Source Page: New technology to help identify invasive species
Document: New technology to help identify invasive species (webpage)

Found: spread and control of these invasive species, the Environment Agency’s expert team at the National Fisheries

Draft Secondary Legislation

The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024

Published - Monday 20th May 2024

Department: Department for Transport

This Order implements Chapter 5 of Part 2 of the Energy Act 2004, and imposes an obligation on aviation fuel suppliers that supply aviation turbine fuel in the United Kingdom to produce evidence that a specified amount of sustainable aviation fuel has been supplied in the United Kingdom (the “SAF …

Found: nuclear sources used to produce energy-derived aviation fuel; (c)residues from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries

Select Committee

Cabinet Office, and University of Edinburgh

Oral Evidence May. 20 2024

Inquiry: Intergovernmental Relations: The Civil Service
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: If you look at my career, I started off in agriculture and fisheries, then moved on to European affairs

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Marine Management Organisation

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Social and Economic Impact Assessments for Fisheries Management Decisions {MMO1384}
Document: (PDF)