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Written Question
Fisheries: Treaties
Monday 27th February 2017

Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will consider invoking Articles 15 and 11 of the 1964 London Fisheries Convention after triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Answered by George Eustice

The Government is considering this issue very carefully.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Nov 2016
English Wine Industry

"Further to that point, will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Sharpham Wine and Cheese, which does just that? It is producing not only fantastic wines but fantastic cheeses and is providing a welcome tourist centre for tours, sharing expertise and creating valuable local employment...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2016
South-west Agriculture and Fishing

"Time is short, so I will congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann) on bringing forward this debate, and endorse the many comments he and others have made about the importance of our farming industry. I would like to touch on: issues for our fishing industry, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 07 Sep 2016
Badger Culling/Bovine TB

"I support further research into vaccination, but is the hon. Gentleman aware that there is a global shortage of bovine TB vaccine? It is the same vaccine as is used in humans, it needs 10 times the dose, and it needs to be repeated every five years. There is no …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 07 Sep 2016
Badger Culling/Bovine TB

"Will the hon. Lady give way?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Fisheries Policy

"It is a pleasure to serve under your expert chairmanship, Mr Nuttall. I thank and pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for South East Cornwall (Mrs Murray), who spoke on a complex subject with her customary expertise and set out the difficulties faced by the fisheries industry. I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Fisheries Policy

"I am delighted to hear that that is happening in my hon. Friend’s area. We would like to see that kind of investment around the UK, and we would like more scientists out on boats with our fishermen to collect the evidence that they need in real time. We should …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Fisheries Policy

"Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge, though, that there is a value attached to these quotas, and that there should be full compensation if they are removed unilaterally? As my hon. Friend the Member for South East Cornwall (Mrs Murray) said, we need to recognise that the bulk of the fish …..."
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Written Question
Fish: Conservation
Thursday 18th June 2015

Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in other EU member states on the effect of proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass on salmon and sea trout stocks.

Answered by George Eustice

There have been extensive discussions with other EU Member States and the European Commission on the proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass during the current process of agreeing bass management measures. To date these discussions have not included consideration of possible effects of these measures on salmon and sea trout stocks, although our general expectation is that any decrease in bass fishing effort will also help protect salmonids.

Written Question
Fish
Tuesday 16th June 2015

Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will conduct an assessment on the effect on salmon and sea trout stocks of an increase in the bass stock.

Answered by George Eustice

The Government has no plans to conduct an assessment on the effect on salmon and trout stocks of such an increase, but previous studies show that salmon have a number of predators including pike, cod, sea trout and bass.

Current assessment of the EU bass stocks indicate a rapidly declining biomass due to an extended period of poor reproduction and increasing fishing mortality. There is no obvious correlation between bass predation and salmon stocks since both have been declining.