Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward proposals on UK bass fishing management measures and moving incidental bass catches caught in locally regulated shore-based nets out of the scope of the existing prohibition; and if he will make a statement.
As an independent coastal state the UK is able to make its own regulatory changes to bass management measures. We will update on those changes on the conclusion of annual negotiations with the EU.