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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on opening a recreational catch and release fishery for bluefin tuna by summer 2024.

Legislation to enable a UK bluefin recreational fishery was laid in Parliament on 14 March 2024. If the legislation is enacted it will support the opening of a recreational fishery in English waters this summer.