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Fisheries: Indian Ocean

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 65027, tabled on 22 February 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the level of risk to the security of UK citizens posed by illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Western Indian Ocean.

Answered on

2 March 2017

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the West Indian Ocean poses a limited security threat to British nationals, so we have not made a formal assessment.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office