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Fisheries: Monitoring

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 20558, tabled on 17 December 2024

Question

Barry Gardiner
Labour
Brent West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17501 on Fisheries: Monitoring, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement for vessels over 24 metres to have cameras onboard under the Remote Electronic Monitoring roll out.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

6 January 2025

Defra have already assessed which fisheries should have mandatory Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) and published the results in 2023.

The assessment concluded that over 24 metre pelagic trawlers in English waters should be a priority. Implementation began in summer 2024.

A further four fisheries were also identified as priorities. In those fisheries, REM will be mandatory for vessels over 10 metres.

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