United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 163885
Fisheries: Carbon Capture and Storage
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13 March 2023
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21 March 2023 · Answer
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21 March 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has been made of the potential merits of using shellfish aquaculture as a means of carbon sequestration in UK waters.
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13 March 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has been made of the potential merits of using shellfish aquaculture as a means of carbon sequestration in UK waters.
Source: Commons
21 March 2023
Answer
In 2022 Defra commissioned at 3 year, £200k project to understand better the carbon sequestration potential of seaweed and bivalve aquaculture in English waters. This project is due to complete in Spring 2025, after which a final report will be published.
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-13/163885
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1603421
- uk · wq-1603421 · source updated 21 March 2023