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Written Question
White Fish: Conservation
Monday 5th January 2015

Asked by: George Hollingbery (Conservative - Meon Valley)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to introduce domestic technical measures to reduce sea bass mortality so that stocks can rebuild.

Answered by George Eustice

We still need action at EU level to ensure stocks can rebuild. The Commission and the Member States involved in this fishery have undertaken to remain committed to doing the utmost possible, as of the start of the fishing season in January 2015, to reduce fishing pressure and protect spawning aggregations.

This process need not preclude or delay action at UK level, however, and I have already undertaken to ensure that a review of our domestic management measures for bass now commences as a matter of priority.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"I am grateful to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. It is a pleasure to be here debating the important subject of the management of sea bass in the UK.

For many years, those involved in sea bass fishing in the UK have warned that the stock has been left …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"I agree with my hon. Friend. I will allude to the study that he is referencing a little later in my remarks. On the ecological damage done by pair trawling and indeed by other sorts of trawling, including otter trawling, there is no doubt that it is very destructive to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"I agree completely. It is always difficult to quantify exactly the economic benefit of fishing done for fun, but all the evidence points inescapably towards it being an extremely important stream of revenue, in particular for less economically advantaged areas, of which there are a great many in the south-west …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but that will only happen when the IFCAs and others understand and accept the importance of recreational angling and see the Government outline a direction of travel. Only then will the recreational anglers get a proper bite of the cherry, and only then will …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is a vexed issue. There are people who make a very small-scale living out of bass fishing. My belief is that it is likely that in the near term, as has happened in Ireland, the north-east coast of the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Dec 2014
UK Sea Bass Stocks

"May I just confirm that the Minister is talking not about the sea angling report, but about the report into the study of minimum landing size?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What future plans he has for spending on flood amelioration measures in Hambledon, Hampshire...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Yesterday marked the passing of 40 days and 40 nights of flooding in Hambledon since it was first flooded by groundwater, and no one yet has any idea when the floodwater will recede. Every night, the residents sleep in shifts to monitor their pumps, and every day they wake up …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Feb 2014
Flooding (Somerset)

"We all, of course, have enormous sympathy with those in Somerset and elsewhere, including places such as Hambledon in my constituency which has been flooded by ground water for three weeks now, and expects to be flooded for at least another three weeks, or perhaps six or eight. Does my …..."
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