Written question asked by Baroness Boycott (Crossbench) on Tuesday, 9 September 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 September 2025. It was answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour) on Wednesday, 17 September 2025 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Marine Animals: Fishing Catches
- Question
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To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of marine mammals that have been caught by fishing vessels in UK waters in 2023 and 2024.
- Answer
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The Bycatch Monitoring Programme is currently producing the 2024 report on marine mammal bycatch estimates and is expected to be published by the end of the year.
According to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme there were twenty cases of cetacean bycatch and entanglement in 2023 and fifteen in 2024. This data is taken from necropsy data only and does not include data collected on beaches/at sea by volunteer schemes from non-necropsied animals.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- HL10340
- Session
- 2024-26
- Subjects
- Animal welfare Fishing catches Fishing vessels Marine animals
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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- 2025-09-17 15:47:25 +0100
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