Skip to main content

Angling: Tuna

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 21451, tabled on 12 April 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on opening a recreational catch and release fishery for bluefin tuna by summer 2024.

Answered on

22 April 2024

Legislation to enable a UK bluefin recreational fishery was laid in Parliament on 14 March 2024. If the legislation is enacted it will support the opening of a recreational fishery in English waters this summer.