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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Thursday Volume 522 3 February 2011 No. 111 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 3 February 2011 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2011 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through the Office of Public Sector Information website at www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ Enquiries to the Office of Public Sector Information, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; e-mail: [email protected] 1013 3 FEBRUARY 2011 1014 Richard Benyon: We will be consulting the industry House of Commons shortly about changes in the operation of our domestic fleet and about how we can help it to secure greater Thursday 3 February 2011 sustainability. The issue really comes down to the sustainability of stock. Approximately 1% of the egg survey is in Icelandic waters. There is an obvious way in The House met at half-past Ten o’clock which the Icelanders can negotiate. I urge them to operate in the way that we do across fisheries—to sit down and talk, rather than acting unilaterally. PRAYERS Fish Discards [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] 2. Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty) (Con): What steps she is taking to reduce fish discards; and if she will Oral Answers to Questions make a statement. [37796] 3. Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk) (Con): What steps she is taking to reduce fish discards; and if she will make a statement. [37797] ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 6. Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): What steps her The Secretary of State was asked— Department is taking to reduce fish discards. [37800] Mackerel Quota The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Richard Benyon): 1. Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) The United Kingdom Government are pursuing a policy (Lab/Co-op): What recent discussions she has had with of minimising discards through the reform of the common her EU counterparts on mackerel quota. [37795] fisheries policy in 2012. Work is also being undertaken domestically with our fishing industry to increase the The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for selectivity of fishing and to improve the utilisation of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Richard Benyon): the remaining unavoidable fish catches. Levels of discards I have had various discussions about north Atlantic from the UK fleet have been decreasing year on year mackerel, including discussions with Maria Damanaki, since 2002. I am committed to taking further action. the EU Fisheries Commissioner, and discussions at Council of Ministers meetings in Brussels in December. Nigel Adams: Are there any lessons to be learned Our discussions centred on hugely increased catches by from countries such as Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and their failure to agree Islands, which have managed to replenish their fish on stock management measures. In the light of that, the stocks and in which the common fisheries policy has EU Commission agreed to table proposals for sanctions completely failed? against both Iceland and the Faroe Islands if no agreement was possible in the near future. Richard Benyon: It is beyond doubt that the common fisheries policy is broken. It is based on a centralised Tom Greatrex: The Minister will be aware of the top-down system, and we must reform it by decentralising Icelandic Government’s comment that the proposal to it. We must also make the management of our fisheries block Icelandic vessels from landing mackerel in European relevant to the way in which we manage the marine Union ports is neither surprising nor effective, given environment as a whole. that most of their catches are landed at Icelandic ports. We can learn lessons from other countries. As our Is it not time that the matter was dealt with seriously, exchanges on the previous question made clear, they are and should not Iceland’s accession to the EU be put on not repositories of pure virtue, but there are certainly hold until the dispute is resolved? It is having a hugely lessons that we can learn about the local and regional disruptive influence on a core economic interest in sea base and management. Scotland. Matthew Hancock: Was the Minister as shocked as I Richard Benyon: I entirely agree. My consultations was by a recent television documentary about fish discards? with Maria Damanaki and others across the Government I was appalled by what fishermen who work so hard have centred on the proposition that when a country is have to do because of the rules. Will the Minister assure seeking to join a club, tearing up the rule book before it me that he has been working on the issue not just since even enters is strange behaviour. We aim to ensure that the public outcry, but since the moment that he was Iceland’s accession is seen in the light of its actions in given the job? relation to the fish stock. Richard Benyon: I applaud the Fish Fight campaign, Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal) (Con): I agree which has been conducted very ably by Hugh Fearnley- that if we are to have quota rules, they must be obeyed. Whittingstall. My one criticism is of the line that the Has the Minister any other views on quotas— specifically fight back starts here. I should say in fairness to in relation to fishermen in the under-10-metre sector—that the previous Government that the fight back started he might wish to include in his discussions so that we do many years ago—and the present Government, too, not experience another crisis in the summer? have worked extremely hard on catch quotas, fishing for 1015 Oral Answers3 FEBRUARY 2011 Oral Answers 1016 the market, and a variety of measures to reduce the zones. Will the Minister update the House on what he is number of discards. I am happy to work with anyone. doing to ensure that there are more of these zones, not We need to win public support and, in that regard, the only in British waters, but overseas? programme was a great success. Richard Benyon: We are progressing with the Tony Baldry: Speaking as the last Conservative Fisheries implementation of the Marine and Coastal Access Act Minister in the Major Government, I can tell my hon. 2009, which will result in marine protected areas—marine Friend that I thought he was considerably better at conservation zones—around the coasts. We have four identifying fish at Billingsgate than I could ever have projects up and running, and I am working very hard to been. ensure that they are properly resourced and working I believe that the whole House supports my hon. towards the timetable of 2012. I very much hope that Friend on the need to reform the common fisheries they will be able to deliver on that, and I will keep the policy. Let me say to those who oppose quotas that House informed on progress. At the recent OSPAR reducing fishing and protecting fish stocks by reducing talks in Bergen I was able to support a wider proposal in effort is no easier an option, and that we must face the respect of international waters. The work we do on reality that fishermen will not want to keep their boats international fisheries and fisheries partnerships is key in port. to ensuring that fishery conservation measures not only apply in our own waters, but are followed up elsewhere. Richard Benyon: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind words. When interviewed at five o’clock in the Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East) (Lab): Does morning, I would be hard pressed to recognise my own the Minister agree that, as Denmark has shown, further children, let alone fish stocks. I am grateful to my action can be taken by this Government, in conjunction friends and enemies who have sent me fish charts, with with the devolved Administrations, to cut discard levels which I wiled away the long winter evenings. He rightly this year? Will he seek approval for an increase in the says that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to this scope of this year’s catch quota trials, which half the problem; there are opportunities to increase effort control, Scottish white fish fleet expressed an interest in joining? but we also have to deal with the problem of quotas. Will he pledge to incentivise investment in more selective That is a problem in a mixed fishery and it has been part nets and in on-ship CCTV to monitor what stocks are of the driver towards the number of discards, which we being taken from the sea? Would those measures, together are so keen to reduce. with radical reform of the CFP, not add up to an effective national action plan to end for good this Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): I appalling waste of good quality fish? know that the Minister is well aware of the pioneering efforts made by the Scottish white fish fleet and the Mr Speaker: There were a lot of questions there, but I Scottish Government in recent years to reduce dramatically know that we will hear a pithy response from the the number of discards going into the North sea—the Minister. relevant figure is about 30%. People in coastal communities Richard Benyon: The UK Government have a very are pleased that the issue is now getting the wider clear strategy to ensure that we reduce the level of prominence it deserves and has deserved for a long time. discards and do not wait until 2012 to achieve that.
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