Lindisfarne Highly Protected Marine Conservation Area Debate
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Lord Cormack
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Lindisfarne Highly Protected Marine Conservation Area
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Lord Benyon (Con)
Trawler activity on our seabeds is often incompatible with marine conservation. We want to make sure that while we are helping our fishing industry prosper in the new world in which we live, we are also mindful that what legitimate British fishing interests on these islands want is a rising biomass. That requires us to have marine conservation running alongside productive fisheries. The actions of some international vessels coming into our waters is of course of concern when they are breaking the rules, and we have available very strict enforcement policies.
Lord Cormack (Con)
My Lords, I warmly congratulate the Government on getting two things right in two days.