Policy paper

Marine wildlife bycatch mitigation initiative

Sets out how we will minimise sensitive marine species bycatch and entanglement in UK fisheries.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 10 August 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Marine wildlife bycatch mitigation initiative

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This report sets out how the UK will achieve its ambitions to minimise and, where possible, eliminate the bycatch (accidental capture) and entanglement of sensitive marine species in UK fisheries by:

• improving bycatch monitoring
• identifying bycatch ‘hotspots’
• implementing mitigation measures
• adopting incentives
• working internationally

Published 10 August 2022