Fisheries Bill (Fourth sitting) - 6th December 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Fisheries Bill (Fourth sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-12-06/debates/69555550-51CB-4476-833D-73D5CEB04573/FisheriesBillFourthsitting

14:45 Bill Grant

The issue of climate change has two aspects. One is that, as waters warm, you may see a movement of fish. We have seen northern hake move from the southern waters more northerly into the North sea, which is causing some of our fishermen a problem at the moment, with choke issues. The other aspect is that you may suddenly find species that you have never seen before. We are getting reports of cuttlefish, squid and even jellyfish down in the channel. We are aware, through questioning the public, that there is an Asian market for jellyfish, so perhaps some time in the future there will be a market for UK jellyfish. Who knows? We are looking at that as part of this process; we are not focused just on this year’s or next year’ fishing quotas. It is very much about where we might be in 50 or 100 years’ time.

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