Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether burbots are extinct within the UK.

Burbot were last reported in the UK in the early 1970s and the species has not been recorded since in the British Isles.

Various factors are likely to have contributed to the demise of the species, including the impacts of climate and environmental change. However, a precise cause remains unclear.