The European Fisheries Fund (EFF), Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and Defra are providing over £300,000 towards two projects which aim to help reduce fish discards in England.

Before the Cumbria project started they also carried out a consultation exercise with fishermen in Whitehaven, Maryport and Fleetwood, Lancashire which identified that juvenile flatfish such as plaice were the species commonly discarded in the area.