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date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fish: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much government funding is available for salmon and eel conservation in 2016-17; and how much such funding was available in 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	49454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>In 2009/10, £9.4 million of Government funding was issued to the Environment Agency covering its fisheries specific duties, such as maintaining, improving and developing fisheries for migratory fish species, for both England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the Environment Agency has received Government funding to deliver its environmental objectives through an integrated approach which does not allow disaggregation. Salmon and eel conservation has benefited from work on delivering the Water Framework Directive, funding for the community-led Catchment Based Approach for delivering water improvements, pollution prevention work and from areas such as monitoring and planning. In addition to this broad Government funding, migratory fish species benefit from the Environment Agency’s charging activity work.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 26/10/2016 09:28:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

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registered interest
date	20/07/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fish: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on future collaboration with the EU on fish stock management; and what discussions she has had to date with the European Commission on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	43538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2016 answer text <p>Exit from the EU presents us with an opportunity under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to improve the way in which waters within the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone are managed. Defra officials will be working with the new Department for Exiting the European Union, Devolved Administrations and stakeholders to develop proposals that will allow the UK to best take advantage of this opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>No formal discussions have taken place with the European Commission at this stage.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/09/2016 13:54:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

350065

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fish: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in other EU member states on the effect of proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass on salmon and sea trout stocks.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	2110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>There have been extensive discussions with other EU Member States and the European Commission on the proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass during the current process of agreeing bass management measures. To date these discussions have not included consideration of possible effects of these measures on salmon and sea trout stocks, although our general expectation is that any decrease in bass fishing effort will also help protect salmonids.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 18/06/2015 13:34:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston