Fisheries Bill (Second sitting) - 4th December 2018

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Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-12-04/debates/8891EA21-2491-43F8-9113-4A26413414AF/FisheriesBillSecondsitting

15:01 George Eustice

There are potentially some bits missing. We do not have marine planning in there, which we could possibly put in. Quota could possibly go in there. There could be a method of dealing with quota at that stage, on how, if and when quota comes back, what happens with climate change and fishing opportunities. That could be put into the plans as well.

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15:15 Luke Pollard (Labour)

Q Finally, one of the areas that seems to be weaker in the Bill than in the common fisheries policy is the area around maximum sustainable yield and the removal of a commitment to achieve it by 2020. Where there are difficulties in achieving maximum sustainable yield by 2020, do you think that the MSY provisions in the Fisheries Bill are sufficiently robust to make sure that we are restoring stock levels in our oceans, especially as climate change seems to be missing as a theme from much of the Bill? Is that something that we could address?

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