Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 April 2017.
Melanie Onn
Labour, Great Grimsby
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to set a target for the proportion of future UK fishing trips to be monitored either by a fisheries observer or monitored using electronic monitoring equipment.
George Eustice
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Details of planned UK observer trips are set out in United Kingdom’s Work Plan for data collection in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The Work Plan can be found at the Gov.UK website. In England and Wales, 525 staff days per year are allocated to observer sampling with 1032 days for Scotland and 460 days for Northern Ireland.
Yes3 people think so
No2 people think not
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