EFRA

  • NE die-offs ‘vastly increased’ after dredging restarted

    NE die-offs ‘vastly increased’ after dredging restarted

    2nd January 2023

    Fishermen are reporting that die-offs of shellfish and mass wash-ups of dead marine life on local beaches have ‘vastly’ increased since dredging in the river Tees resumed on 1 September, reports Tim Oliver. One of many photos of dead fish…

  • EFRA Committee to probe NE shellfish deaths

    EFRA Committee to probe NE shellfish deaths

    18th October 2022

    The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee is to hold a hearing into the mass morality of shellfish off the Yorkshire coast since last October. The session will be held on Tuesday, 25 October. Stakeholders were invited to…

  • Yorkshire MP new chair of EFRA committee

    Yorkshire MP new chair of EFRA committee

    6th June 2022

    Sir Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitby, has been elected chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee. Five MPs were nominated for the role, triggering an election between Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds), Sir Robert Goodwill, Dr…

  • EFRA Committee to hold inquiry on UK Seafood Fund

    EFRA Committee to hold inquiry on UK Seafood Fund

    26th April 2022

    The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee is to hold an inquiry into the new UK Seafood Fund. The purpose of the inquiry by the cross-party select committee is to evaluate how effectively the UK Seafood…

  • Legal Moves On LBM Exports

    Legal Moves On LBM Exports

    12th April 2021

    ‘Nothing we can do if EU wants to ban LBM imports’ DEFRA secretary George Eustice told a Commons committee that DEFRA did fully understand the legal aspects of the EU ban on exports of live bivalve molluscs (LBMs) for purification…

  • Sea angling status fight

    Sea angling status fight

    25th February 2019

    ‘Anglers must not be equal to commercial fishermen’ – Inshore fishermen’s message to minister as fisheries bill debated Inshore fishermen’s groups are calling on fisheries minister George Eustice to reject moves by recreational angling interests to gain equal ‘stakeholder’ status with…

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