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Fishing Gear: South East Cornwall

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 59609, tabled on 12 June 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vessels registered to ports in South East Cornwall constituency use (a) bottom trawls and (b) other bottom towed gear.

Answered on

3 July 2025

UK fishing vessels are registered by port of administration. The nearest port of administration to this constituency is Plymouth, to which 330 fishing vessels were registered as of 1 June 2025.