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HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I repeat my declaration of interest as co-chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, as one of my amendments mentions local nature partnerships.…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much welcome these amendments and support them. I have put my name to Amendment 62, which is about my genuine concern—I will not go over it again at this time of…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Does that include the 5,000 agreements that the Minister talked about in order to negate one of our earlier amendments?04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am sure we will deal with this very quickly: there may be a misunderstanding here. One of the most important things if we are to have a sustainable fishery is that we…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Whenever the Minister gives such a comprehensive answer, I get more worried. This was an amendment where I was expecting an answer such as, “Lord Teverson, on this, don’t worry.…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]If the current publications are going to continue as they are, that is probably the answer, but I will check that myself. I thank the Minister for coming back on that point. More…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, this is a really important issue and one that we need to clarify. I am sure that there are international obligations to do this, but I would be very interested to hear…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, it seems that whenever we start a fisheries discussion there is rather a lack of sustainability among our Members. One of the useful things between Second Reading and…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much welcome marine planning. I should perhaps declare a past interest as a board member of the Marine Management Organisation, which is responsible for marine…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for probably one of the most important debates during this Committee and for all the points made. They were made pretty much in the same…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, as the Minister said, we have here a list of objectives of great importance. I would not disagree with most, but one or two I have an issue with. There is always a…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. The noble Lord, Lord Lansley, made an interesting and important point. He assumed that this was already the case, but the British…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Absolutely. I agree with that. That is what I am saying. Given the new opportunity that we have, we should take advantage of being an independent coastal state. The Bill does…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I put my name on the amendment and am pleased to welcome it. One message from the climate change committee was that we cannot do decarbonisation and net zero sequentially; we have…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Perhaps I can be helpful to the Minister, in that the whole area of foreign ownership of British-flagged vessels is an English issue, and I am sure that we can solve it in that…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Perhaps I may intervene on the noble and learned Lord. We should not forget that we are talking about British boats in British waters—it is not about foreign vessels. Sorry, I…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 78, which is in a similar vein around national benefit. It is quite clear, certainly in the south-west, that if all the fishing vessels with…02 Mar 2020